FANNIN COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Fannin County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Georgia for Blue Ridge, Epworth and and Morganton. Watch for local pecans when it comes into season in Georgia. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Fannin County by the Numbers

Fannin County has 195 farms on 11,041 acres (about 57 acres each). Together they sold $19.6 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, fruit & nuts and nursery & greenhouse plants.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, and local fields produce cabbage, tomatoes, sweet corn and potatoes. Beekeepers tend about 244 honey bee colonies.

16 farms in Fannin County already sell straight to the public. 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 Fannin County

Fannin County farms and homesteads keep 1,537 head of cattle, 206 goats and 206 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 369 people run or help run farms in Fannin County, with an average age of 58. 35% of them are women. 18 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 7 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.