UNION COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Blairsville, and Suches 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 Union County by the Numbers

Union County has 248 farms on 30,452 acres (about 123 acres each). Together they sold $39.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, vegetables and cattle.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, peaches and grapes, and local fields produce green beans, okra, tomatoes and potatoes. Beekeepers tend about 102 honey bee colonies.

18 farms in Union County already sell straight to the public, about $60,000 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 Union County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 6,032 head of cattle, 1,161 egg-laying hens and 607 goats in Union County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 413 people run or help run farms in Union County, with an average age of 60. 35% of them are women. 36 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 9 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Union County stands out: it ranks #22 of 149 GA counties for goats.