PARK COUNTY MARKET

Park County, Wyoming Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 This is the Park County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Wyoming for Cody, Fishing Bridge and and Ralston. 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 Park County by the Numbers

Park County has 871 farms on 686,973 acres (about 789 acres each). Together they sold $86.9 million of farm products in 2022, led by hay & other field crops, barley and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, and local fields produce sweet corn, potatoes and tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 191 honey bee colonies.

59 farms in Park County already sell straight to the public, about $499,000 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 Park County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Park County counts 36,082 head of cattle, 17,165 sheep and 5,304 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,654 people run or help run farms in Park County, with an average age of 58. 41% of them are women. 144 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 23 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Park County stands out: it ranks #1 of 19 WY counties for selling food straight to the public and #2 of 23 WY counties for number of farms.