BUTLER COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Forest Home, Georgiana and and Mc Kenzie buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Butler County by the Numbers

Butler County has 397 farms on 90,393 acres (about 228 acres each). Together they sold $265.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, cattle and hay & other field crops.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, and local fields produce watermelons. Beekeepers tend about 128 honey bee colonies.

12 farms in Butler County already sell straight to the public, about $79,000 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 Butler County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 9,808 head of cattle, 548 goats and 252 horses and ponies in Butler County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 600 people run or help run farms in Butler County, with an average age of 61. 33% of them are women. 19 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 4 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Butler County stands out: it ranks #11 of 67 AL counties for total farm sales.