FLORENCE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Florence County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in South Carolina for Florence, Coward and Olanta. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Florence County by the Numbers

Florence County has 391 farms on 116,428 acres (about 298 acres each). Together they sold $49 million of farm products in 2022, led by soybeans, corn and cotton.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pears, and local fields produce sweet potatoes, turnip greens, watermelons and squash. Beekeepers tend about 344 honey bee colonies.

28 farms in Florence County already sell straight to the public, about $145,000 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 Florence County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 1,551 egg-laying hens, 1,422 head of cattle and 691 goats in Florence County. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 625 people run or help run farms in Florence County, with an average age of 59. 30% of them are women. 33 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.