STONE COUNTY MARKET

Stone County, Missouri Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 Looking for food grown in Stone County? Backyard growers and small farms around Blue Eye, Branson West and Hurley list it here. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Stone County by the Numbers

Stone County has 586 farms on 87,784 acres (about 150 acres each). Together they sold $45.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, cattle and hay & other field crops.

Orchards and vineyards here grow peaches, sweet cherries and nectarines, and local fields produce pumpkins and tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 230 honey bee colonies.

33 farms in Stone County already sell straight to the public, about $117,000 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 Stone County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 64,474 turkeys, 20,295 head of cattle and 1,853 egg-laying hens in Stone County.

About 1,015 people run or help run farms in Stone County, with an average age of 59. 39% of them are women. 60 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.