HOUSTON COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Houston County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Georgia for Warner Robins, Bonaire and Perry. Watch for local Vidalia onions 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 Houston County by the Numbers

Houston County has 302 farms on 54,850 acres (about 182 acres each). Together they sold $28.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by cotton, fruit & nuts and hay & other field crops.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, grapes and plums, and local fields produce okra, watermelons, sweet corn and squash. Beekeepers tend about 44 honey bee colonies.

11 farms in Houston County already sell straight to the public, about $61,000 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 Houston County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 8,386 egg-laying hens, 5,971 head of cattle and 733 goats in Houston County. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 536 people run or help run farms in Houston County, with an average age of 56. 37% of them are women. 41 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers.

Where Houston County stands out: it ranks #14 of 149 GA counties for goats.