BARBOUR COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Barbour County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Alabama for Clayton, Clio and and Louisville. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Barbour County by the Numbers

Barbour County has 590 farms on 215,074 acres (about 365 acres each). Together they sold $217.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, cattle and cotton.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans and pears, and local fields produce green beans, cucumbers, collard greens and asparagus. Beekeepers tend about 134 honey bee colonies.

16 farms in Barbour County already sell straight to the public, about $68,000 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 Barbour County

Barbour County farms and homesteads keep 104,897 egg-laying hens, 27,451 head of cattle and 247 horses and ponies. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 1,031 people run or help run farms in Barbour County, with an average age of 60. 32% of them are women. 61 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 26 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Barbour County stands out: it ranks #14 of 67 AL counties for total farm sales.