HANCOCK COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Looking for food grown in Hancock County? Backyard growers and small farms around Kyles Ford, and Sneedville list it here. 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 Hancock County by the Numbers

Hancock County has 351 farms on 55,692 acres (about 159 acres each). Together they sold $7.2 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, horses and hay & other field crops.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, peaches and grapes. Beekeepers tend about 36 honey bee colonies.

9 farms in Hancock County already sell straight to the public, about $6,000 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 Hancock County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 12,418 head of cattle, 1,198 egg-laying hens and 296 horses and ponies in Hancock County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 549 people run or help run farms in Hancock County, with an average age of 57. 34% of them are women. 57 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 3 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.