HANCOCK COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Diamondhead, Kiln and and Waveland buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Mississippi favorites like sweet potatoes and pecans 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 Hancock County by the Numbers

Hancock County has 248 farms on 23,946 acres (about 97 acres each). Together they sold $9.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by nursery & greenhouse plants, hay & other field crops and vegetables.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, oranges and peaches, and local fields produce cabbage and okra. Beekeepers tend about 80 honey bee colonies.

20 farms in Hancock County already sell straight to the public, about $23,000 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 Hancock County

Hancock County farms and homesteads keep 8,376 head of cattle, 1,425 egg-laying hens and 952 goats. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 433 people run or help run farms in Hancock County, with an average age of 57. 38% of them are women. 26 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 4 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Hancock County stands out: it ranks #3 of 73 MS counties for goats.