BAY COUNTY MARKET

Bay County, Florida Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 This is the Bay County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Florida for Panama City, Panama City Beac and Southport. Florida favorites like honey and citrus show up here when they're in season. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Bay County by the Numbers

Bay County has 139 farms on 70,324 acres (about 506 acres each). Together they sold $3.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by hay & other field crops, cattle and poultry & eggs.

Orchards and vineyards here grow tangerines, and local fields produce collard greens and chile peppers. Beekeepers tend about 798 honey bee colonies.

18 farms in Bay County already sell straight to the public, about $17,000 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 Bay County

Bay County farms and homesteads keep 835 egg-laying hens, 735 head of cattle and 210 goats. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 232 people run or help run farms in Bay County, with an average age of 58. 36% of them are women. 9 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 2 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.