PERRY COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Looking for food grown in Perry County? Backyard growers and small farms around Marion, Sprott and and Uniontown list it here. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Perry County by the Numbers

Perry County has 305 farms on 147,664 acres (about 484 acres each). Together they sold $42.3 million of farm products in 2022, led by aquaculture, cotton and nursery & greenhouse plants.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, apples and pears, and local fields produce watermelons, sweet corn, potatoes and cucumbers. Beekeepers tend about 160 honey bee colonies.

9 farms in Perry County already sell straight to the public, about $14,000 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 Perry County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 15,564 head of cattle, 814 egg-laying hens and 703 goats in Perry County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 586 people run or help run farms in Perry County, with an average age of 62. 32% of them are women. 21 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 1 farm earns money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.