WALTON COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Looking for food grown in Walton County? Backyard growers and small farms around Argyle, De Funiak Spring and and Santa Rosa Beach list it here. 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 Walton County by the Numbers

Walton County has 695 farms on 91,288 acres (about 131 acres each). Together they sold $39.1 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, hay & other field crops and fruit & nuts.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, grapes and persimmons, and local fields produce lettuce, cucumbers, fresh herbs and celery. Beekeepers tend about 2,291 honey bee colonies.

56 farms in Walton County already sell straight to the public, about $547,000 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 Walton County

Walton County farms and homesteads keep 22,966 egg-laying hens, 7,000 head of cattle and 1,088 goats. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 1,255 people run or help run farms in Walton County, with an average age of 62. 43% of them are women. 99 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 9 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Walton County stands out: it ranks #5 of 55 FL counties for egg-laying hens and #13 of 65 FL counties for selling food straight to the public.