PUTNAM COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Looking for food grown in Putnam County? Backyard growers and small farms around Crescent City, East Palatka and Hawthorne list it here. Watch for local citrus when it comes into season in Florida. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Putnam County by the Numbers

Putnam County has 539 farms on 134,803 acres (about 250 acres each). Together they sold $74.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by vegetables, nursery & greenhouse plants and cattle.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, lemons and persimmons, and local fields produce potatoes, cabbage, sweet corn and okra. Beekeepers tend about 1,753 honey bee colonies.

35 farms in Putnam County already sell straight to the public, about $116,000 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 Putnam County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 13,437 head of cattle, 888 goats and 534 horses and ponies in Putnam County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 926 people run or help run farms in Putnam County, with an average age of 60. 42% of them are women. 58 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 3 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.