STANLY COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Stanly County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in North Carolina for Albemarle, Badin and Norwood. 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 Stanly County by the Numbers

Stanly County has 649 farms on 109,164 acres (about 168 acres each). Together they sold $91.1 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, corn and cotton.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes and apples, and local fields produce pumpkins, tomatoes, sweet corn and squash. Beekeepers tend about 241 honey bee colonies.

34 farms in Stanly County already sell straight to the public, about $315,000 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 Stanly County

Stanly County farms and homesteads keep 125,699 turkeys, 12,760 head of cattle and 1,265 egg-laying hens.

About 1,076 people run or help run farms in Stanly County, with an average age of 59. 33% of them are women. 87 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 10 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.