GRADY COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Grady County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Cairo, Calvary and and Whigham. Watch for local peaches 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 Grady County by the Numbers

Grady County has 408 farms on 110,417 acres (about 271 acres each). Together they sold $144.6 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, nursery & greenhouse plants and vegetables.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, and local fields produce bell peppers, tomatoes, green beans and chile peppers. Beekeepers tend about 13 honey bee colonies.

16 farms in Grady County already sell straight to the public, about $608,000 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 Grady County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 22,187 head of cattle, 528 goats and 455 egg-laying hens in Grady County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 665 people run or help run farms in Grady County, with an average age of 60. 33% of them are women. 39 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 Grady County stands out: it ranks #10 of 133 GA counties for selling food straight to the public and #21 of 159 GA counties for number of farms.