WAUKESHA COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Brookfield, New Berlin and Delafield buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Watch for local sweet corn when it comes into season in Wisconsin. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Waukesha County by the Numbers

Waukesha County has 439 farms on 70,268 acres (about 160 acres each). Together they sold $62 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, nursery & greenhouse plants and soybeans.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, grapes and pears, and local fields produce pumpkins, sweet corn, tomatoes and squash. Beekeepers tend about 719 honey bee colonies.

75 farms in Waukesha County already sell straight to the public, about $664,000 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 Waukesha County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 5,604 head of cattle, 3,122 egg-laying hens and 996 horses and ponies in Waukesha County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 822 people run or help run farms in Waukesha County, with an average age of 59. 39% of them are women. 67 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 10 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Waukesha County stands out: it ranks #14 of 69 WI counties for honey bee colonies.