DUPLIN COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Duplin County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Albertson, Beulaville and Kenansville. Watch for local sweet potatoes when it comes into season in North Carolina. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Duplin County by the Numbers

Duplin County has 949 farms on 254,164 acres (about 268 acres each). Together they sold $2 billion of farm products in 2022, led by hogs, poultry & eggs and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes and pecans, and local fields produce sweet potatoes, cucumbers, watermelons and squash. Beekeepers tend about 173 honey bee colonies.

21 farms in Duplin County already sell straight to the public, about $272,000 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 Duplin County

Duplin County farms and homesteads keep 2,152,073 turkeys, 1,884,573 hogs and 910,329 egg-laying hens.

About 1,487 people run or help run farms in Duplin County, with an average age of 57. 27% of them are women. 137 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 15 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Duplin County stands out: it ranks #2 of 98 NC counties for total farm sales and #3 of 78 NC counties for egg-laying hens.