CLAIBORNE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Claiborne County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Clairfield, Cumberland Gap and Speedwell. Tennessee favorites like tomatoes and sweet corn 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 Claiborne County by the Numbers

Claiborne County has 865 farms on 106,999 acres (about 124 acres each). Together they sold $16.9 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, hay & other field crops and vegetables.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, pears and plums, and local fields produce sweet corn, tomatoes, pumpkins and bell peppers. Beekeepers tend about 321 honey bee colonies.

30 farms in Claiborne County already sell straight to the public, about $67,000 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 Claiborne County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Claiborne County counts 29,322 head of cattle, 3,161 egg-laying hens and 892 sheep. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,349 people run or help run farms in Claiborne County, with an average age of 59. 33% of them are women. 89 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 1 farm earns money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.