GREENE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Beech Grove, Delaplaine and and Paragould buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Greene County by the Numbers

Greene County has 496 farms on 224,286 acres (about 452 acres each). Together they sold $166.9 million of farm products in 2022, led by rice, soybeans and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans and peaches. Beekeepers tend about 90 honey bee colonies.

16 farms in Greene County already sell straight to the public, about $137,000 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 Greene County

Greene County farms and homesteads keep 6,323 head of cattle, 2,059 egg-laying hens and 480 sheep. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 800 people run or help run farms in Greene County, with an average age of 57. 35% of them are women. 94 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers.