DESOTO COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 DeSoto County has more backyard fruit trees and home gardens than anyone could eat from. Crop Market connects them with neighbors in Hernando, Horn Lake and Southaven. Watch for local muscadines when it comes into season in Mississippi. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in DeSoto County by the Numbers

DeSoto County has 372 farms on 135,985 acres (about 366 acres each). Together they sold $51.9 million of farm products in 2022, led by soybeans, cotton and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pears, figs and peaches, and local fields produce tomatoes, squash, bell peppers and turnip greens. Beekeepers tend about 34 honey bee colonies.

18 farms in DeSoto County already sell straight to the public, about $36,000 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.