PULASKI COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Pulaski County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Arkansas for Little Rock, North Little Roc and Jacksonville. 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 Pulaski County by the Numbers

Pulaski County has 398 farms on 72,088 acres (about 181 acres each). Together they sold $30.2 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, soybeans and rice.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, peaches and grapes, and local fields produce tomatoes, okra, collard greens and cantaloupes. Beekeepers tend about 589 honey bee colonies.

37 farms in Pulaski County already sell straight to the public, about $408,000 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 Pulaski County

Pulaski County farms and homesteads keep 5,687 head of cattle, 2,263 egg-laying hens and 991 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 688 people run or help run farms in Pulaski County, with an average age of 59. 42% of them are women. 59 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 30 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Pulaski County stands out: it ranks #5 of 65 AR counties for selling food straight to the public and #7 of 63 AR counties for honey bee colonies.