CARROLL COUNTY MARKET

Carroll County, Tennessee Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Atwood, Bruceton and Huntingdon buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Tennessee favorites like tomatoes and sweet corn show up here when they're in season. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Carroll County by the Numbers

Carroll County has 760 farms on 179,424 acres (about 236 acres each). Together they sold $96.2 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and cotton.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, pears and peaches, and local fields produce sweet corn, watermelons, pumpkins and tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 308 honey bee colonies.

10 farms in Carroll County already sell straight to the public, about $20,000 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 Carroll County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Carroll County counts 135,112 egg-laying hens, 8,345 head of cattle and 822 horses and ponies. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 1,328 people run or help run farms in Carroll County, with an average age of 60. 32% of them are women. 106 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 11 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Carroll County stands out: it ranks #5 of 85 TN counties for egg-laying hens and #17 of 95 TN counties for total farm sales.