GRANVILLE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Bullock, Butner and and Stovall buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Watch for local sweet potatoes when it comes into season in North Carolina. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Granville County by the Numbers

Granville County has 483 farms on 102,115 acres (about 211 acres each). Together they sold $28.3 million of farm products in 2022, led by tobacco, vegetables and dairy (milk).

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans and apples, and local fields produce squash, turnip greens, sweet corn and collard greens. Beekeepers tend about 116 honey bee colonies.

42 farms in Granville County already sell straight to the public, about $198,000 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 Granville County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 7,267 head of cattle, 1,911 egg-laying hens and 985 hogs in Granville County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 742 people run or help run farms in Granville County, with an average age of 59. 38% of them are women. 49 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 14 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.