WALTON COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Good Hope, and Monroe buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Georgia favorites like peaches and pecans show up here when they're in season. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Walton County by the Numbers

Walton County has 406 farms on 55,131 acres (about 136 acres each). Together they sold $37.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, cattle and nursery & greenhouse plants.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, plums and pears, and local fields produce sweet corn, tomatoes, collard greens and cantaloupes. Beekeepers tend about 148 honey bee colonies.

31 farms in Walton County already sell straight to the public, about $511,000 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 Walton County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 11,780 head of cattle, 1,790 egg-laying hens and 1,065 goats in Walton County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 668 people run or help run farms in Walton County, with an average age of 61. 38% of them are women. 20 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 13 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Walton County stands out: it ranks #6 of 149 GA counties for goats and #12 of 133 GA counties for selling food straight to the public.