STOKES COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Stokes County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in North Carolina for Danbury, Germanton and Pinnacle. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Stokes County by the Numbers

Stokes County has 726 farms on 81,361 acres (about 112 acres each). Together they sold $52.5 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, poultry & eggs and tobacco.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, apples and pears, and local fields produce cucumbers, pumpkins, sweet corn and tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 471 honey bee colonies.

45 farms in Stokes County already sell straight to the public, about $243,000 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 Stokes County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Stokes County counts 92,413 egg-laying hens, 11,083 head of cattle and 1,481 sheep. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 1,238 people run or help run farms in Stokes County, with an average age of 59. 35% of them are women. 111 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 22 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Stokes County stands out: it ranks #14 of 92 NC counties for goats and #20 of 100 NC counties for number of farms.