HORRY COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Horry County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in South Carolina for Myrtle Beach, Aynor and Galivants Ferry. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Horry County by the Numbers

Horry County has 629 farms on 151,691 acres (about 241 acres each). Together they sold $105.2 million of farm products in 2022, led by nursery & greenhouse plants, soybeans and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, peaches and apples, and local fields produce watermelons, sweet corn, sweet potatoes and pumpkins. Beekeepers tend about 273 honey bee colonies.

42 farms in Horry County already sell straight to the public, about $152,000 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 Horry County

Horry County farms and homesteads keep 20,065 hogs, 4,517 head of cattle and 2,219 egg-laying hens.

About 1,034 people run or help run farms in Horry County, with an average age of 60. 34% of them are women. 67 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 14 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.