PEACH COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Looking for food grown in Peach County? Backyard growers and small farms around Fort Valley, and Powersville list it here. Watch for local blueberries when it comes into season in Georgia. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Peach County by the Numbers

Peach County has 182 farms on 43,434 acres (about 239 acres each). Together they sold $82.6 million of farm products in 2022, led by fruit & nuts, cotton and horses.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, and local fields produce tomatoes, cucumbers, sweet corn and okra. Beekeepers tend about 173 honey bee colonies.

12 farms in Peach County already sell straight to the public. 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 Peach County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 1,249 head of cattle, 808 egg-laying hens and 364 horses and ponies in Peach County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 315 people run or help run farms in Peach County, with an average age of 56. 39% of them are women. 29 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 4 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.