COPIAH COUNTY MARKET

Copiah County, Mississippi Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 From Crystal Springs to and Wesson, Copiah County gardeners, small farms and home cooks post their extra harvest here for people nearby. Mississippi favorites like muscadines and sweet potatoes show up here when they're in season. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Copiah County by the Numbers

Copiah County has 444 farms on 103,863 acres (about 234 acres each). Together they sold $92.5 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, hay & other field crops and soybeans.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, grapes and persimmons, and local fields produce okra, mustard greens, cucumbers and green beans. Beekeepers tend about 40 honey bee colonies.

19 farms in Copiah County already sell straight to the public, about $75,000 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 Copiah County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 17,749 head of cattle, 1,532 egg-laying hens and 508 horses and ponies in Copiah County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 669 people run or help run farms in Copiah County, with an average age of 61. 34% of them are women. 28 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.