FRANKLIN COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Franklin County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Belvidere, Cowan and Sewanee. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Franklin County by the Numbers

Franklin County has 686 farms on 115,142 acres (about 168 acres each). Together they sold $133.5 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, nursery & greenhouse plants and soybeans.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, and local fields produce sweet corn, okra, cucumbers and bell peppers. Beekeepers tend about 224 honey bee colonies.

28 farms in Franklin County already sell straight to the public, about $103,000 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 Franklin County

Franklin County farms and homesteads keep 14,917 head of cattle, 990 goats and 633 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,101 people run or help run farms in Franklin County, with an average age of 59. 34% of them are women. 66 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.

Where Franklin County stands out: it ranks #12 of 95 TN counties for total farm sales.