TOWNS COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Hiawassee, and Young Harris buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Towns County by the Numbers

Towns County has 103 farms on 5,774 acres (about 56 acres each). Together they sold $679,000 of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, hay & other field crops and vegetables.

Local fields produce sweet corn. Beekeepers tend about 11 honey bee colonies.

6 farms in Towns 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 Towns County

Towns County farms and homesteads keep 1,141 head of cattle, 190 egg-laying hens and 147 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 176 people run or help run farms in Towns County, with an average age of 58. 31% of them are women. 5 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.