BULLOCH COUNTY MARKET

Bulloch County, Georgia Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Brooklet, Portal and and Statesboro buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. 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 Bulloch County by the Numbers

Bulloch County has 495 farms on 195,261 acres (about 394 acres each). Together they sold $119.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by cotton, hay & other field crops and poultry & eggs.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, tangerines and grapefruit, and local fields produce sweet corn, pumpkins, cantaloupes and watermelons. Beekeepers tend about 452 honey bee colonies.

29 farms in Bulloch County already sell straight to the public, about $135,000 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 Bulloch County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 5,438 head of cattle, 1,365 egg-laying hens and 363 goats in Bulloch County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 821 people run or help run farms in Bulloch County, with an average age of 59. 35% of them are women. 62 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 13 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Bulloch County stands out: it ranks #13 of 159 GA counties for number of farms.