BAMBERG COUNTY MARKET

Bamberg County, South Carolina Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 This is the Bamberg County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in South Carolina for Bamberg, Denmark and and Olar. South Carolina favorites like sweet potatoes and collard greens 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 Bamberg County by the Numbers

Bamberg County has 260 farms on 102,313 acres (about 394 acres each). Together they sold $74.2 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, vegetables and cotton.

Local fields produce watermelons, sweet potatoes, cantaloupes and green peas. Beekeepers tend about 20 honey bee colonies.

23 farms in Bamberg County already sell straight to the public, about $327,000 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 Bamberg County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 6,891 head of cattle, 807 egg-laying hens and 410 goats in Bamberg County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 423 people run or help run farms in Bamberg County, with an average age of 58. 27% of them are women. 43 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 8 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.