LANCASTER COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Looking for food grown in Lancaster County? Backyard growers and small farms around Heath Springs, Kershaw and and Lancaster list it here. Watch for local collard greens when it comes into season in South Carolina. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Lancaster County by the Numbers

Lancaster County has 510 farms on 60,781 acres (about 119 acres each). Together they sold $76.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, cattle and soybeans.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, peaches and chestnuts, and local fields produce sweet corn, cantaloupes, tomatoes and squash. Beekeepers tend about 322 honey bee colonies.

28 farms in Lancaster County already sell straight to the public, about $185,000 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 Lancaster County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 926,777 turkeys, 9,382 head of cattle and 1,885 egg-laying hens in Lancaster County.

About 851 people run or help run farms in Lancaster County, with an average age of 59. 34% of them are women. 63 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 16 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.