COLLETON COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Colleton County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in South Carolina for Cottageville, Green Pond and Ritter. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Colleton County by the Numbers

Colleton County has 575 farms on 167,546 acres (about 291 acres each). Together they sold $22.9 million of farm products in 2022, led by vegetables, hay & other field crops and aquaculture.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, pears and grapes, and local fields produce sweet corn, okra, asparagus and squash. Beekeepers tend about 345 honey bee colonies.

40 farms in Colleton County already sell straight to the public, about $1 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 Colleton County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 4,668 head of cattle, 3,468 egg-laying hens and 682 horses and ponies in Colleton County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 914 people run or help run farms in Colleton County, with an average age of 61. 33% of them are women. 26 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 12 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Colleton County stands out: it ranks #8 of 44 SC counties for selling food straight to the public.