MORGAN COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Morgan County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Decatur, Danville and Laceys Spring. Alabama favorites like peanuts and sweet potatoes 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 Morgan County by the Numbers

Morgan County has 1,102 farms on 140,181 acres (about 127 acres each). Together they sold $150.6 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, cattle and soybeans.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, peaches and apples, and local fields produce watermelons, cantaloupes, sweet corn and pumpkins. Beekeepers tend about 153 honey bee colonies.

73 farms in Morgan County already sell straight to the public, about $2.6 million 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 Morgan County

Morgan County farms and homesteads keep 28,032 head of cattle, 9,209 sheep and 1,465 goats. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,830 people run or help run farms in Morgan County, with an average age of 58. 34% of them are women. 189 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 11 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Morgan County stands out: it ranks #1 of 65 AL counties for selling food straight to the public and #5 of 67 AL counties for goats.