HERTFORD COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Ahoskie, Cofield and and Winton buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. 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 Hertford County by the Numbers

Hertford County has 97 farms on 67,209 acres (about 693 acres each). Together they sold $102.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, cotton and tobacco.

Local fields produce sweet potatoes. Beekeepers tend about 318 honey bee colonies.

1 farms in Hertford County already sell straight to the public. 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 Hertford County

Hertford County farms and homesteads keep 41,661 hogs and 242 head of cattle.

About 166 people run or help run farms in Hertford County, with an average age of 57. 20% of them are women. 22 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 3 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.