BURKE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Girard, Keysville and and Waynesboro buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Georgia favorites like blueberries and Vidalia onions show up here when they're in season. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Burke County by the Numbers

Burke County has 403 farms on 214,575 acres (about 532 acres each). Together they sold $142.1 million of farm products in 2022, led by dairy (milk), cotton and hay & other field crops.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, grapes and pears, and local fields produce green beans, sweet corn, cucumbers and okra. Beekeepers tend about 51 honey bee colonies.

21 farms in Burke County already sell straight to the public, about $361,000 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 Burke County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 25,810 head of cattle, 1,014 egg-laying hens and 395 goats in Burke County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 673 people run or help run farms in Burke County, with an average age of 58. 29% of them are women. 64 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 8 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Burke County stands out: it ranks #16 of 133 GA counties for selling food straight to the public and #24 of 159 GA counties for number of farms.