HARDIN COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Hardin County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Tennessee for Counce, Crump and Savannah. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Hardin County by the Numbers

Hardin County has 448 farms on 121,675 acres (about 272 acres each). Together they sold $21.9 million of farm products in 2022, led by soybeans, nursery & greenhouse plants and cattle.

Orchards and vineyards here grow plums, apples and grapes, and local fields produce green beans, tomatoes and pumpkins. Beekeepers tend about 237 honey bee colonies.

17 farms in Hardin County already sell straight to the public, about $402,000 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 Hardin County

Hardin County farms and homesteads keep 10,826 head of cattle, 1,429 egg-laying hens and 482 goats. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 745 people run or help run farms in Hardin County, with an average age of 60. 35% of them are women. 50 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 6 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.