COFFEE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Coffee County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Tennessee for Beechgrove, Dickel and and Normandy. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Coffee County by the Numbers

Coffee County has 731 farms on 143,516 acres (about 196 acres each). Together they sold $65.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and cattle.

Local fields produce sweet corn, tomatoes, okra and potatoes. Beekeepers tend about 113 honey bee colonies.

60 farms in Coffee County already sell straight to the public, about $1.4 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 Coffee County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Coffee County counts 27,078 head of cattle, 2,741 egg-laying hens and 1,110 goats. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,242 people run or help run farms in Coffee County, with an average age of 60. 36% of them are women. 92 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 14 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Coffee County stands out: it ranks #3 of 91 TN counties for selling food straight to the public.