HARDEMAN COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Hardeman County has more backyard fruit trees and home gardens than anyone could eat from. Crop Market connects them with neighbors in Bolivar, Grand Junction and Pocahontas. 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 Hardeman County by the Numbers

Hardeman County has 598 farms on 159,283 acres (about 266 acres each). Together they sold $22.2 million of farm products in 2022, led by soybeans, cotton and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, grapes and peaches, and local fields produce watermelons, green beans, cantaloupes and cucumbers. Beekeepers tend about 220 honey bee colonies.

28 farms in Hardeman County already sell straight to the public, about $397,000 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 Hardeman County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 8,461 head of cattle, 1,637 egg-laying hens and 555 horses and ponies in Hardeman County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,048 people run or help run farms in Hardeman County, with an average age of 60. 34% of them are women. 55 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 13 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.