WAYNE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Looking for food grown in Wayne County? Backyard growers and small farms around Dudley, Eureka and Pikeville list it here. Watch for local sweet potatoes when it comes into season in North Carolina. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Wayne County by the Numbers

Wayne County has 415 farms on 149,752 acres (about 361 acres each). Together they sold $798.3 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, hogs and soybeans.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans and grapes, and local fields produce sweet potatoes, watermelons, cucumbers and sweet corn. Beekeepers tend about 425 honey bee colonies.

32 farms in Wayne County already sell straight to the public, about $169,000 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 Wayne County

Wayne County farms and homesteads keep 4,034,035 turkeys, 417,151 hogs and 7,148 head of cattle.

About 727 people run or help run farms in Wayne County, with an average age of 58. 31% of them are women. 79 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 2 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Wayne County stands out: it ranks #3 of 98 NC counties for total farm sales.