CHARLESTON COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Charleston, Awendaw and Jericho buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. South Carolina favorites like collard greens and pecans 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 Charleston County by the Numbers

Charleston County has 370 farms on 38,727 acres (about 105 acres each). Together they sold $57.2 million of farm products in 2022, led by vegetables, hay & other field crops and nursery & greenhouse plants.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, apples and figs, and local fields produce watermelons, tomatoes, squash and sweet corn. Beekeepers tend about 363 honey bee colonies.

46 farms in Charleston County already sell straight to the public, about $2.6 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 Charleston County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 1,438 head of cattle, 1,199 egg-laying hens and 503 horses and ponies in Charleston County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 658 people run or help run farms in Charleston County, with an average age of 58. 35% of them are women. 30 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 17 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Charleston County stands out: it ranks #4 of 44 SC counties for selling food straight to the public.