TOOMBS COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Toombs County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Georgia for Lyons, and Vidalia. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Toombs County by the Numbers

Toombs County has 296 farms on 69,898 acres (about 236 acres each). Together they sold $123.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by vegetables, poultry & eggs and cotton.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, peaches and persimmons, and local fields produce onions, tomatoes, cantaloupes and squash. Beekeepers tend about 36 honey bee colonies.

15 farms in Toombs County already sell straight to the public, about $52,000 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 Toombs County

Toombs County farms and homesteads keep 115,486 egg-laying hens, 7,259 head of cattle and 244 goats. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 506 people run or help run farms in Toombs County, with an average age of 59. 38% of them are women. 23 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers.

Where Toombs County stands out: it ranks #26 of 133 GA counties for egg-laying hens.