LEAKE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Leake County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Mississippi for Edinburg, Lena and and Walnut Grove. 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 Leake County by the Numbers

Leake County has 481 farms on 85,196 acres (about 177 acres each). Together they sold $421.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, cattle and cotton.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, and local fields produce watermelons, sweet corn, green peas and turnip greens.

5 farms in Leake County already sell straight to the public, about $22,000 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 Leake County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Leake County counts 12,287 head of cattle, 602 horses and ponies and 84 goats. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 786 people run or help run farms in Leake County, with an average age of 61. 37% of them are women. 60 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers.

Where Leake County stands out: it ranks #1 of 82 MS counties for total farm sales.