LIBERTY COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Allenhurst, Fleming and and Riceboro buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Liberty County by the Numbers

Liberty County has 53 farms on 7,849 acres (about 148 acres each). Together they sold $320,000 of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, hay & other field crops and sheep & goats.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, persimmons and chestnuts.

3 farms in Liberty County already sell straight to the public, about $5,000 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 Liberty County

Liberty County farms and homesteads keep 553 head of cattle, 272 egg-laying hens and 165 goats. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 93 people run or help run farms in Liberty County, with an average age of 58. 38% of them are women. 3 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.