GATES COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Gates County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Corapeake, Eure and and Sunbury. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Gates County by the Numbers

Gates County has 122 farms on 71,866 acres (about 589 acres each). Together they sold $137.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, cotton and hogs.

Local fields produce pumpkins, cantaloupes and watermelons. Beekeepers tend about 75 honey bee colonies.

7 farms in Gates County already sell straight to the public, about $759,000 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 Gates County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 20,140 hogs, 1,469 head of cattle and 66 horses and ponies in Gates County.

About 211 people run or help run farms in Gates County, with an average age of 56. 24% of them are women. 24 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers.