CHESTERFIELD COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Chesterfield County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in South Carolina for Cheraw, Chesterfield and Pageland. South Carolina favorites like pecans and peaches show up here when they're in season. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Chesterfield County by the Numbers

Chesterfield County has 517 farms on 118,286 acres (about 229 acres each). Together they sold $116.1 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, soybeans and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes and apples, and local fields produce watermelons, collard greens, green peas and cantaloupes. Beekeepers tend about 173 honey bee colonies.

34 farms in Chesterfield County already sell straight to the public, about $903,000 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 Chesterfield County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 235,506 turkeys, 174,941 egg-laying hens and 7,591 head of cattle in Chesterfield County.

About 834 people run or help run farms in Chesterfield County, with an average age of 59. 29% of them are women. 72 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 15 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Chesterfield County stands out: it ranks #3 of 37 SC counties for egg-laying hens and #5 of 46 SC counties for goats.