LEON COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 From Tallahassee, Leon County gardeners, small farms and home cooks post their extra harvest here for people nearby. Florida favorites like honey and citrus show up here when they're in season. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Leon County by the Numbers

Leon County has 372 farms on 70,058 acres (about 188 acres each). Together they sold $13.1 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 persimmons, and local fields produce watermelons, squash, collard greens and cucumbers. Beekeepers tend about 691 honey bee colonies.

63 farms in Leon County already sell straight to the public, about $376,000 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 Leon County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 1,936 head of cattle, 1,886 egg-laying hens and 728 goats in Leon County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 641 people run or help run farms in Leon County, with an average age of 59. 41% of them are women. 50 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 6 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.