MONROE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Monroe County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Georgia for Culloden, Forsyth and and Juliette. Watch for local Vidalia onions when it comes into season in Georgia. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Monroe County by the Numbers

Monroe County has 198 farms on 49,816 acres (about 252 acres each).

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, and local fields produce squash and tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 99 honey bee colonies.

26 farms in Monroe County already sell straight to the public, about $237,000 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 Monroe County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 6,710 head of cattle, 1,026 sheep and 837 egg-laying hens in Monroe County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 354 people run or help run farms in Monroe County, with an average age of 55. 39% of them are women. 54 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.