GUILFORD COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Guilford County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Greensboro, High Point and Jamestown. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Guilford County by the Numbers

Guilford County has 775 farms on 94,798 acres (about 122 acres each). Together they sold $68.2 million of farm products in 2022, led by nursery & greenhouse plants, poultry & eggs and tobacco.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, apples and pears, and local fields produce sweet corn, cucumbers, tomatoes and watermelons. Beekeepers tend about 479 honey bee colonies.

81 farms in Guilford County already sell straight to the public, about $520,000 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 Guilford County

Guilford County farms and homesteads keep 9,980 head of cattle, 3,027 hogs and 1,208 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,414 people run or help run farms in Guilford County, with an average age of 59. 36% of them are women. 110 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 20 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Guilford County stands out: it ranks #10 of 92 NC counties for goats and #15 of 100 NC counties for number of farms.