DOUGHERTY COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Looking for food grown in Dougherty County? Backyard growers and small farms around Albany, and Bridgeboro list it here. 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 Dougherty County by the Numbers

Dougherty County has 100 farms on 54,565 acres (about 546 acres each). Together they sold $19.6 million of farm products in 2022, led by fruit & nuts, cotton and hay & other field crops.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans and grapes. Beekeepers tend about 134 honey bee colonies.

10 farms in Dougherty County already sell straight to the public, about $40,000 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 Dougherty County

Dougherty County farms and homesteads keep 2,386 head of cattle, 90 goats and 66 sheep. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 203 people run or help run farms in Dougherty County, with an average age of 59. 38% of them are women. 28 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 6 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.