CARTER COUNTY MARKET

Carter County, Oklahoma Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Fox, Graham and Rubottom buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Oklahoma favorites like watermelons and honey show up here when they're in season. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Carter County by the Numbers

Carter County has 1,155 farms on 384,917 acres (about 333 acres each). Together they sold $29.9 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, fruit & nuts and hay & other field crops.

Orchards and vineyards here grow peaches, and local fields produce pumpkins, watermelons, cantaloupes and okra. Beekeepers tend about 136 honey bee colonies.

57 farms in Carter County already sell straight to the public, about $158,000 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 Carter County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 48,744 head of cattle, 3,820 egg-laying hens and 1,769 goats in Carter County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,932 people run or help run farms in Carter County, with an average age of 57. 39% of them are women. 182 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 5 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Carter County stands out: it ranks #14 of 77 OK counties for goats.