SCREVEN COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 From Hiltonia to and Rocky Ford, Screven County gardeners, small farms and home cooks post their extra harvest here for people nearby. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Screven County by the Numbers

Screven County has 326 farms on 168,506 acres (about 517 acres each). Together they sold $75.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by cotton, hay & other field crops and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, grapes and chestnuts, and local fields produce tomatoes, pumpkins, watermelons and sweet potatoes. Beekeepers tend about 251 honey bee colonies.

6 farms in Screven County already sell straight to the public, about $11,000 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 Screven County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 7,984 head of cattle, 301 egg-laying hens and 235 horses and ponies in Screven County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 557 people run or help run farms in Screven County, with an average age of 58. 32% of them are women. 69 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 12 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.