HOLMES COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Holmes County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Mississippi for Cruger, Durant and Tchula. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Holmes County by the Numbers

Holmes County has 483 farms on 278,596 acres (about 577 acres each). Together they sold $104.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by soybeans, corn and cotton.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, pecans and pears, and local fields produce tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 27 honey bee colonies.

3 farms in Holmes County already sell straight to the public. 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 Holmes County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 9,762 head of cattle, 1,064 egg-laying hens and 448 horses and ponies in Holmes County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 778 people run or help run farms in Holmes County, with an average age of 61. 32% of them are women. 50 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 14 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.