LAUDERDALE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Lauderdale County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Alabama for Florence, Anderson and and Waterloo. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Lauderdale County by the Numbers

Lauderdale County has 1,130 farms on 181,760 acres (about 161 acres each). Together they sold $100.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, corn and soybeans.

Orchards and vineyards here grow figs, sweet cherries and pears, and local fields produce sweet corn, pumpkins, tomatoes and squash. Beekeepers tend about 183 honey bee colonies.

51 farms in Lauderdale County already sell straight to the public, about $308,000 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 Lauderdale County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 86,046 egg-laying hens, 21,765 head of cattle and 2,305 goats in Lauderdale County. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 1,787 people run or help run farms in Lauderdale County, with an average age of 58. 30% of them are women. 165 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 15 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Lauderdale County stands out: it ranks #1 of 67 AL counties for goats and #6 of 67 AL counties for number of farms.