BURKE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Burke County has more backyard fruit trees and home gardens than anyone could eat from. Crop Market connects them with neighbors in Connellys Spring, Drexel and Rutherford Colle. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Burke County by the Numbers

Burke County has 473 farms on 44,077 acres (about 93 acres each).

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, grapes and peaches, and local fields produce potatoes, sweet corn, pumpkins and watermelons. Beekeepers tend about 441 honey bee colonies.

33 farms in Burke County already sell straight to the public, about $909,000 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 Burke County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 49,585 egg-laying hens, 5,475 head of cattle and 660 goats in Burke County. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 792 people run or help run farms in Burke County, with an average age of 56. 34% of them are women. 73 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 7 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.