GRENADA COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Grenada County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Mississippi for Gore Springs, Grenada and and Holcomb. 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 Grenada County by the Numbers

Grenada County has 249 farms on 93,914 acres (about 377 acres each). Together they sold $17 million of farm products in 2022, led by cotton, soybeans and cattle.

Beekeepers tend about 394 honey bee colonies.

14 farms in Grenada County already sell straight to the public, about $18,000 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 Grenada County

Grenada County farms and homesteads keep 5,496 head of cattle, 574 egg-laying hens and 162 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 424 people run or help run farms in Grenada County, with an average age of 61. 33% of them are women. 9 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 5 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Grenada County stands out: it ranks #8 of 64 MS counties for honey bee colonies.