COLUMBIA COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Columbia County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Florida for Fort White, Lake City and and Lulu. Florida favorites like strawberries and tomatoes show up here when they're in season. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Columbia County by the Numbers

Columbia County has 867 farms on 89,621 acres (about 103 acres each). Together they sold $63.5 million of farm products in 2022, led by nursery & greenhouse plants, cattle and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, olives and grapes, and local fields produce broccoli, potatoes, cabbage and squash. Beekeepers tend about 3,225 honey bee colonies.

31 farms in Columbia County already sell straight to the public, about $61,000 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

Columbia County farms and homesteads keep 29,392 head of cattle, 1,723 goats and 948 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,494 people run or help run farms in Columbia County, with an average age of 60. 45% of them are women. 65 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.

Where Columbia County stands out: it ranks #10 of 62 FL counties for goats.