HENRY COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Abbeville, Clopton and and Shorterville buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Watch for local peanuts 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 Henry County by the Numbers

Henry County has 408 farms on 157,925 acres (about 387 acres each). Together they sold $105.5 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, hay & other field crops and cotton.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes and persimmons, and local fields produce okra. Beekeepers tend about 239 honey bee colonies.

6 farms in Henry County already sell straight to the public, about $15,000 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 Henry County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Henry County counts 12,223 head of cattle, 213 horses and ponies and 138 goats. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 709 people run or help run farms in Henry County, with an average age of 56. 36% of them are women. 66 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 13 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.