NASH COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Bailey, Castalia and Sharpsburg buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. North Carolina favorites like strawberries and apples show up here when they're in season. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Nash County by the Numbers

Nash County has 375 farms on 133,252 acres (about 355 acres each). Together they sold $184.5 million of farm products in 2022, led by vegetables, tobacco and poultry & eggs.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, and local fields produce sweet potatoes, cucumbers, watermelons and pumpkins. Beekeepers tend about 105 honey bee colonies.

33 farms in Nash County already sell straight to the public, about $266,000 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 Nash County

Nash County farms and homesteads keep 53,770 hogs, 4,944 head of cattle and 455 horses and ponies.

About 644 people run or help run farms in Nash County, with an average age of 57. 31% of them are women. 45 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 12 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.