LAURENS COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Laurens County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in South Carolina for Ora, Clinton and and Waterloo. South Carolina favorites like pecans and peaches show up here when they're in season. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Laurens County by the Numbers

Laurens County has 750 farms on 121,421 acres (about 162 acres each). Together they sold $81.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, nursery & greenhouse plants and cattle.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, grapes and apples, and local fields produce pumpkins, tomatoes, green beans and sweet corn. Beekeepers tend about 146 honey bee colonies.

76 farms in Laurens County already sell straight to the public, about $819,000 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 Laurens County

Laurens County farms and homesteads keep 19,579 head of cattle, 1,020 sheep and 931 goats. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,300 people run or help run farms in Laurens County, with an average age of 59. 38% of them are women. 82 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 24 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Laurens County stands out: it ranks #9 of 46 SC counties for number of farms.