HART COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Bowersville, and Hartwell buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. 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 Hart County by the Numbers

Hart County has 547 farms on 70,336 acres (about 129 acres each). Together they sold $383 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, nursery & greenhouse plants and corn.

Local fields produce squash and tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 337 honey bee colonies.

21 farms in Hart County already sell straight to the public, about $1.8 million 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 Hart County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 1,422,028 egg-laying hens, 13,200 head of cattle and 322 goats in Hart County. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 956 people run or help run farms in Hart County, with an average age of 58. 37% of them are women. 72 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 1 farm earns money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Hart County stands out: it ranks #3 of 133 GA counties for selling food straight to the public and #3 of 133 GA counties for egg-laying hens.