DOOR COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Door County has more backyard fruit trees and home gardens than anyone could eat from. Crop Market connects them with neighbors in Baileys Harbor, Brussels and Fish Creek. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Door County by the Numbers

Door County has 631 farms on 108,658 acres (about 172 acres each). Together they sold $108.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by dairy (milk), corn and soybeans.

Orchards and vineyards here grow tart cherries, apples and grapes, and local fields produce green beans, pumpkins, sweet corn and asparagus. Beekeepers tend about 237 honey bee colonies.

88 farms in Door County already sell straight to the public, about $1.5 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 Door County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Door County counts 20,826 head of cattle, 6,338 egg-laying hens and 580 sheep. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,131 people run or help run farms in Door County, with an average age of 58. 36% of them are women. 101 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 9 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.