PERRY COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Looking for food grown in Perry County? Backyard growers and small farms around Adona, Bigelow and and Perryville list it here. Arkansas favorites like tomatoes and peaches show up here when they're in season. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Perry County by the Numbers

Perry County has 339 farms on 68,311 acres (about 202 acres each). Together they sold $58.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, nursery & greenhouse plants and rice.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, apples and pears, and local fields produce kale, radishes, green onions and collard greens. Beekeepers tend about 390 honey bee colonies.

21 farms in Perry County already sell straight to the public, about $248,000 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 10,638 head of cattle, 1,795 egg-laying hens and 657 goats in Perry County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 571 people run or help run farms in Perry County, with an average age of 58. 42% of them are women. 60 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.

Where Perry County stands out: it ranks #10 of 65 AR counties for selling food straight to the public and #13 of 63 AR counties for honey bee colonies.