SALUDA COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Saluda County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in South Carolina for Saluda, and Ward. South Carolina favorites like sweet potatoes and collard greens show up here when they're in season. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Saluda County by the Numbers

Saluda County has 612 farms on 106,716 acres (about 174 acres each). Together they sold $297.2 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, fruit & nuts and cattle.

Orchards and vineyards here grow peaches, grapes and apples, and local fields produce sweet corn, okra, cantaloupes and green beans. Beekeepers tend about 492 honey bee colonies.

20 farms in Saluda County already sell straight to the public, about $1.9 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 Saluda County

Saluda County farms and homesteads keep 25,964 head of cattle, 1,032 goats and 610 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,026 people run or help run farms in Saluda County, with an average age of 58. 34% of them are women. 91 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 4 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Saluda County stands out: it ranks #4 of 46 SC counties for total farm sales and #5 of 44 SC counties for selling food straight to the public.