PINELLAS COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Pinellas County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Florida for Saint Petersburg, Palm Harbor and Lake Tarpon. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Pinellas County by the Numbers

Pinellas County has 115 farms on 3,744 acres (about 33 acres each). Together they sold $7.1 million of farm products in 2022, led by nursery & greenhouse plants, fruit & nuts and honey.

Orchards and vineyards here grow oranges, grapefruit and pears. Beekeepers tend about 1,084 honey bee colonies.

22 farms in Pinellas County already sell straight to the public, about $77,000 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 Pinellas County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Pinellas County counts 914 egg-laying hens and 172 horses and ponies. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 226 people run or help run farms in Pinellas County, with an average age of 56. 47% of them are women. 44 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 1 farm earns money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.