BALDWIN COUNTY MARKET

Baldwin County, Alabama Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 This is the Baldwin County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Alabama for Bay Minette, Bon Secour and Foley. Watch for local sweet potatoes when it comes into season in Alabama. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Baldwin County by the Numbers

Baldwin County has 853 farms on 180,784 acres (about 212 acres each). Together they sold $143.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by nursery & greenhouse plants, hay & other field crops and soybeans.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, grapes and tangerines, and local fields produce sweet potatoes, sweet corn, collard greens and turnip greens. Beekeepers tend about 739 honey bee colonies.

84 farms in Baldwin County already sell straight to the public, about $1 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 Baldwin County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Baldwin County counts 20,092 head of cattle, 997 horses and ponies and 916 goats. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,505 people run or help run farms in Baldwin County, with an average age of 59. 35% of them are women. 140 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 22 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Baldwin County stands out: it ranks #3 of 65 AL counties for selling food straight to the public and #3 of 63 AL counties for honey bee colonies.