COLUMBIA COUNTY MARKET

Columbia County, Arkansas Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Emerson, Magnolia and and Waldo 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 Columbia County by the Numbers

Columbia County has 269 farms on 58,575 acres (about 218 acres each). Together they sold $29.3 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, cattle and hay & other field crops.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, and local fields produce watermelons. Beekeepers tend about 83 honey bee colonies.

10 farms in Columbia County already sell straight to the public, about $162,000 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 Columbia County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Columbia County counts 41,550 egg-laying hens, 9,033 head of cattle and 409 horses and ponies. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 436 people run or help run farms in Columbia County, with an average age of 57. 36% of them are women. 23 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.