WILKES COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Wilkes County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in North Carolina for Boomer, Ferguson and Moravian Falls. 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 Wilkes County by the Numbers

Wilkes County has 871 farms on 114,778 acres (about 132 acres each). Together they sold $459.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, cattle and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, apples and peaches, and local fields produce pumpkins, cucumbers, mustard greens and tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 1,015 honey bee colonies.

42 farms in Wilkes County already sell straight to the public, about $5.2 million 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 Wilkes County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Wilkes County counts 486,561 egg-laying hens, 34,494 head of cattle and 959 goats. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 1,454 people run or help run farms in Wilkes County, with an average age of 58. 32% of them are women. 143 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.

Where Wilkes County stands out: it ranks #4 of 89 NC counties for selling food straight to the public and #5 of 90 NC counties for honey bee colonies.