EAU CLAIRE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Eau Claire, Altoona and and Fall Creek buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Eau Claire County by the Numbers

Eau Claire County has 1,006 farms on 168,016 acres (about 167 acres each). Together they sold $143 million of farm products in 2022, led by dairy (milk), corn and cattle.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, plums and grapes, and local fields produce squash, pumpkins, tomatoes and sweet corn. Beekeepers tend about 574 honey bee colonies.

90 farms in Eau Claire County already sell straight to the public, about $619,000 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 Eau Claire County

Eau Claire County farms and homesteads keep 28,673 head of cattle, 6,713 egg-laying hens and 2,502 goats. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,775 people run or help run farms in Eau Claire County, with an average age of 58. 38% of them are women. 176 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.

Where Eau Claire County stands out: it ranks #8 of 65 WI counties for goats.