HERNANDO COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Spring Hill, Brooksville and and Ridge Manor West buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Hernando County by the Numbers

Hernando County has 761 farms on 67,187 acres (about 88 acres each). Together they sold $36.5 million of farm products in 2022, led by nursery & greenhouse plants, hay & other field crops and cattle.

Orchards and vineyards here grow oranges, olives and limes, and local fields produce lettuce, mustard greens, collard greens and kale. Beekeepers tend about 1,088 honey bee colonies.

44 farms in Hernando County already sell straight to the public, about $385,000 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 Hernando County

Hernando County farms and homesteads keep 9,372 head of cattle, 3,965 egg-laying hens and 1,466 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,390 people run or help run farms in Hernando County, with an average age of 59. 45% of them are women. 93 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 9 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.