MONTGOMERY COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Montgomery County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Alabama for Montgomery, Cecil and Mathews. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Montgomery County by the Numbers

Montgomery County has 512 farms on 179,866 acres (about 351 acres each). Together they sold $59.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, poultry & eggs and nursery & greenhouse plants.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, apples and pears, and local fields produce sweet corn, watermelons, cucumbers and green peas. Beekeepers tend about 588 honey bee colonies.

24 farms in Montgomery County already sell straight to the public, about $25,000 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 Montgomery County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Montgomery County counts 38,527 head of cattle, 877 horses and ponies and 566 egg-laying hens. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 860 people run or help run farms in Montgomery County, with an average age of 60. 31% of them are women. 55 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.

Where Montgomery County stands out: it ranks #7 of 63 AL counties for honey bee colonies.