GRAVES COUNTY MARKET

Graves County, Kentucky Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 This is the Graves County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Kentucky for Boaz, Fancy Farm and Mayfield. 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 Graves County by the Numbers

Graves County has 1,129 farms on 255,830 acres (about 227 acres each). Together they sold $473.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, soybeans and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans and apples, and local fields produce tomatoes, sweet corn, pumpkins and bell peppers. Beekeepers tend about 479 honey bee colonies.

24 farms in Graves County already sell straight to the public, about $44,000 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 Graves County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 29,824 hogs, 15,109 head of cattle and 857 horses and ponies in Graves County.

About 1,793 people run or help run farms in Graves County, with an average age of 57. 34% of them are women. 183 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 12 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Graves County stands out: it ranks #1 of 120 KY counties for total farm sales and #7 of 111 KY counties for honey bee colonies.