ANSON COUNTY MARKET

Anson County, North Carolina Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 This is the Anson County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in North Carolina for Ansonville, Lilesville and Polkton. North Carolina favorites like blueberries and strawberries show up here when they're in season. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Anson County by the Numbers

Anson County has 421 farms on 84,695 acres (about 201 acres each). Together they sold $491.2 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, hogs and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, and local fields produce okra, tomatoes, snow peas and green beans. Beekeepers tend about 255 honey bee colonies.

26 farms in Anson County already sell straight to the public, about $238,000 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 Anson County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 855,150 turkeys, 347,344 egg-laying hens and 54,644 hogs in Anson County.

About 684 people run or help run farms in Anson County, with an average age of 57. 33% of them are women. 66 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 5 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Anson County stands out: it ranks #7 of 98 NC counties for total farm sales and #8 of 78 NC counties for egg-laying hens.