CLAY COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Celina, and Moss buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Tennessee favorites like strawberries and honey 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 Clay County by the Numbers

Clay County has 364 farms on 61,730 acres (about 170 acres each). Together they sold $45.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, cattle and nursery & greenhouse plants.

Local fields produce tomatoes, sweet corn and okra. Beekeepers tend about 8 honey bee colonies.

8 farms in Clay County already sell straight to the public, about $23,000 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 Clay County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Clay County counts 12,926 head of cattle, 517 goats and 377 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 610 people run or help run farms in Clay County, with an average age of 59. 32% of them are women. 42 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 7 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.