TIFT COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Abac, Chula and and Ty Ty buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Georgia favorites like peaches and pecans show up here when they're in season. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Tift County by the Numbers

Tift County has 279 farms on 91,722 acres (about 329 acres each). Together they sold $73 million of farm products in 2022, led by vegetables, cotton and hay & other field crops.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, and local fields produce watermelons, cantaloupes and green beans. Beekeepers tend about 188 honey bee colonies.

20 farms in Tift County already sell straight to the public, about $355,000 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 Tift County

Tift County farms and homesteads keep 6,188 head of cattle, 264 egg-laying hens and 181 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 493 people run or help run farms in Tift County, with an average age of 58. 32% of them are women. 48 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers.

Where Tift County stands out: it ranks #17 of 133 GA counties for selling food straight to the public.