Nassau

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Amelia Island, Bryceville and and Yulee buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Florida favorites like tomatoes and honey show up here when they're in season. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Nassau County by the Numbers

Nassau County has 346 farms on 47,480 acres (about 137 acres each). Together they sold $15.3 million of farm products in 2022, led by nursery & greenhouse plants, fruit & nuts and sheep & goats.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, and local fields produce broccoli, potatoes, okra and turnips. Beekeepers tend about 67 honey bee colonies.

28 farms in Nassau County already sell straight to the public, about $139,000 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 Nassau County

Nassau County farms and homesteads keep 4,736 head of cattle, 4,294 egg-laying hens and 992 goats. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 596 people run or help run farms in Nassau County, with an average age of 59. 43% of them are women. 30 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 4 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.