TUSCALOOSA COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Tuscaloosa, Brookwood and Duncanville buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. 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 Tuscaloosa County by the Numbers

Tuscaloosa County has 452 farms on 115,659 acres (about 256 acres each). Together they sold $52.1 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, nursery & greenhouse plants and soybeans.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, persimmons and grapes, and local fields produce watermelons, sweet corn, tomatoes and green beans. Beekeepers tend about 210 honey bee colonies.

40 farms in Tuscaloosa County already sell straight to the public, about $100,000 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 Tuscaloosa County

Tuscaloosa County farms and homesteads keep 6,805 head of cattle, 2,164 egg-laying hens and 435 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 772 people run or help run farms in Tuscaloosa County, with an average age of 59. 39% of them are women. 70 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 8 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.