JEFFERSON COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Jefferson County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Florida for Lamont, Lloyd and and Wacissa. Florida favorites like strawberries and tomatoes 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 Jefferson County by the Numbers

Jefferson County has 597 farms on 189,120 acres (about 317 acres each). Together they sold $114.6 million of farm products in 2022, led by nursery & greenhouse plants, fruit & nuts and hay & other field crops.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, tangerines and grapes, and local fields produce watermelons, collard greens, okra and potatoes. Beekeepers tend about 444 honey bee colonies.

51 farms in Jefferson County already sell straight to the public, about $294,000 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 Jefferson County

Jefferson County farms and homesteads keep 29,064 head of cattle, 4,069 egg-laying hens and 785 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,031 people run or help run farms in Jefferson County, with an average age of 61. 38% of them are women. 46 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 16 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.