BAYFIELD COUNTY MARKET

Bayfield County, Wisconsin Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 This is the Bayfield County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Wisconsin for Bayfield, Cable and Grand View. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Bayfield County by the Numbers

Bayfield County has 355 farms on 93,254 acres (about 263 acres each). Together they sold $18.3 million of farm products in 2022, led by hay & other field crops, fruit & nuts and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples and pears, and local fields produce turnips, squash, sweet corn and broccoli. Beekeepers tend about 146 honey bee colonies.

74 farms in Bayfield County already sell straight to the public, about $1.2 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 Bayfield County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 6,398 head of cattle, 1,608 egg-laying hens and 801 sheep in Bayfield County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 642 people run or help run farms in Bayfield County, with an average age of 58. 36% of them are women. 39 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 3 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.