HARNETT COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Harnett County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Angier, Broadway and Dunn. North Carolina favorites like sweet potatoes and blueberries show up here when they're in season. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Harnett County by the Numbers

Harnett County has 563 farms on 109,179 acres (about 194 acres each). Together they sold $251.5 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, hogs and tobacco.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, peaches and pears, and local fields produce sweet potatoes, watermelons, sweet corn and pumpkins. Beekeepers tend about 213 honey bee colonies.

60 farms in Harnett County already sell straight to the public, about $745,000 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 Harnett County

Harnett County farms and homesteads keep 83,539 hogs, 4,822 head of cattle and 2,775 egg-laying hens.

About 901 people run or help run farms in Harnett County, with an average age of 59. 33% of them are women. 69 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.