ETOWAH COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Attalla, Gadsden and Rainbow City 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 Etowah County by the Numbers

Etowah County has 725 farms on 90,283 acres (about 125 acres each). Together they sold $190.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, cattle and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, apples and pecans, and local fields produce sweet corn, okra, watermelons and tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 385 honey bee colonies.

54 farms in Etowah County already sell straight to the public, about $314,000 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 Etowah County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Etowah County counts 172,558 egg-laying hens, 18,593 head of cattle and 744 goats. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 1,225 people run or help run farms in Etowah County, with an average age of 56. 35% of them are women. 160 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 5 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Etowah County stands out: it ranks #12 of 65 AL counties for selling food straight to the public and #11 of 57 AL counties for egg-laying hens.