CATAWBA COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Catawba County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in North Carolina for Hickory, Catawba and Newton. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Catawba County by the Numbers

Catawba County has 608 farms on 61,631 acres (about 101 acres each). Together they sold $94 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, nursery & greenhouse plants and soybeans.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, grapes and peaches, and local fields produce pumpkins, cucumbers, green beans and green peas. Beekeepers tend about 353 honey bee colonies.

49 farms in Catawba County already sell straight to the public, about $112,000 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 Catawba County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Catawba County counts 82,887 egg-laying hens, 11,312 head of cattle and 715 horses and ponies. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 1,011 people run or help run farms in Catawba County, with an average age of 59. 31% of them are women. 81 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 17 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.