WILCOX COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Alberta, Arlington and Coy buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Wilcox County by the Numbers

Wilcox County has 336 farms on 157,580 acres (about 469 acres each). Together they sold $11.9 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, cotton and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow peaches, grapes and plums, and local fields produce okra, watermelons, sweet corn and mustard greens. Beekeepers tend about 18 honey bee colonies.

6 farms in Wilcox County already sell straight to the public, about $8,000 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 Wilcox County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Wilcox County counts 13,779 head of cattle, 904 egg-laying hens and 408 hogs. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 536 people run or help run farms in Wilcox County, with an average age of 64. 30% of them are women. 14 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.