UNION COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Blue Springs, Etta and and New Albany buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Union County by the Numbers

Union County has 525 farms on 129,221 acres (about 246 acres each). Together they sold $24.2 million of farm products in 2022, led by soybeans, cattle and hay & other field crops.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, grapes and persimmons, and local fields produce tomatoes and sweet corn. Beekeepers tend about 303 honey bee colonies.

20 farms in Union County already sell straight to the public, about $32,000 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 Union County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 8,121 head of cattle, 358 egg-laying hens and 356 sheep in Union County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 852 people run or help run farms in Union County, with an average age of 63. 32% of them are women. 43 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers.

Where Union County stands out: it ranks #10 of 82 MS counties for number of farms and #11 of 64 MS counties for honey bee colonies.