LEE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Lee County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Mississippi for Belden, Guntown and Shannon. Mississippi favorites like muscadines and sweet potatoes show up here when they're in season. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Lee County by the Numbers

Lee County has 392 farms on 97,272 acres (about 248 acres each). Together they sold $37.5 million of farm products in 2022, led by soybeans, cotton and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow peaches, pears and apples, and local fields produce sweet corn, okra, pumpkins and tomatoes.

4 farms in Lee County already sell straight to the public, about $13,000 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 Lee County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 7,614 head of cattle, 1,092 egg-laying hens and 556 horses and ponies in Lee County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 625 people run or help run farms in Lee County, with an average age of 60. 30% of them are women. 64 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 3 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.