MERIWETHER COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Meriwether County has more backyard fruit trees and home gardens than anyone could eat from. Crop Market connects them with neighbors in Alvaton, Luthersville and and Woodbury. Georgia favorites like Vidalia onions and peaches show up here when they're in season. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Meriwether County by the Numbers

Meriwether County has 308 farms on 92,208 acres (about 299 acres each). Together they sold $15.1 million of farm products in 2022, led by nursery & greenhouse plants, fruit & nuts and cattle.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, grapes and pears, and local fields produce pumpkins. Beekeepers tend about 43 honey bee colonies.

15 farms in Meriwether County already sell straight to the public, about $451,000 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 Meriwether County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 6,904 head of cattle, 977 egg-laying hens and 515 sheep in Meriwether County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 529 people run or help run farms in Meriwether County, with an average age of 58. 34% of them are women. 32 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 13 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Meriwether County stands out: it ranks #13 of 133 GA counties for selling food straight to the public.