GREENE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Greene County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Boligee, Eutaw and and Knoxville. Alabama favorites like peaches and pecans show up here when they're in season. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Greene County by the Numbers

Greene County has 243 farms on 107,845 acres (about 444 acres each). Together they sold $28.5 million of farm products in 2022, led by aquaculture, cattle and cotton.

Local fields produce sweet corn, green beans, sweet potatoes and turnip greens. Beekeepers tend about 40 honey bee colonies.

10 farms in Greene County already sell straight to the public, about $157,000 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 Greene County

Greene County farms and homesteads keep 8,444 head of cattle, 485 egg-laying hens and 79 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 381 people run or help run farms in Greene County, with an average age of 64. 25% of them are women. 7 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 19 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.