WARREN COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Warren County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Redwood, and Vicksburg. Watch for local blueberries when it comes into season in Mississippi. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Warren County by the Numbers

Warren County has 224 farms on 131,145 acres (about 585 acres each). Together they sold $34 million of farm products in 2022, led by soybeans, cotton and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, peaches and apples, and local fields produce green beans, lettuce, cucumbers and kale. Beekeepers tend about 18 honey bee colonies.

9 farms in Warren County already sell straight to the public, about $19,000 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 Warren County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 4,804 head of cattle, 602 egg-laying hens and 184 hogs in Warren County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 420 people run or help run farms in Warren County, with an average age of 61. 33% of them are women. 32 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 2 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.