TWIGGS COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Danville, Dry Branch and and Jeffersonville buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. 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 Twiggs County by the Numbers

Twiggs County has 87 farms on 40,478 acres (about 465 acres each). Together they sold $16.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by cotton, hay & other field crops and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow figs and plums. Beekeepers tend about 17 honey bee colonies.

3 farms in Twiggs County already sell straight to the public, about $2,000 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 Twiggs County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 2,430 head of cattle, 400 goats and 216 egg-laying hens in Twiggs County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 132 people run or help run farms in Twiggs County, with an average age of 66. 33% of them are women. 3 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.