PIERCE COUNTY MARKET

Pierce County, Washington Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 This is the Pierce County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Washington for Tacoma, Puyallup and Anderson Island. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Pierce County by the Numbers

Pierce County has 1,347 farms on 47,546 acres (about 35 acres each). Together they sold $104.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by nursery & greenhouse plants, vegetables and aquaculture.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, pears and grapes, and local fields produce sweet corn, pumpkins, rhubarb and lettuce. Beekeepers tend about 320 honey bee colonies.

150 farms in Pierce County already sell straight to the public, about $2.5 million a year in direct sales. Crop Market gives them, and every backyard grower, a free way to reach more neighbors.

Source: USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, 2022 Census of Agriculture.

Farm Life in Pierce County

Pierce County farms and homesteads keep 6,743 head of cattle, 2,952 horses and ponies and 1,860 goats. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 2,565 people run or help run farms in Pierce County, with an average age of 59. 49% of them are women. 168 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 44 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Pierce County stands out: it ranks #3 of 37 WA counties for goats and #8 of 39 WA counties for number of farms.