LAUDERDALE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Fort Pillow, Gates and and Ripley buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Lauderdale County by the Numbers

Lauderdale County has 427 farms on 212,357 acres (about 497 acres each). Together they sold $131.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by soybeans, cotton and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pears, and local fields produce tomatoes and bell peppers. Beekeepers tend about 31 honey bee colonies.

14 farms in Lauderdale County already sell straight to the public, about $168,000 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 Lauderdale County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 8,168 head of cattle, 489 egg-laying hens and 419 horses and ponies in Lauderdale County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 698 people run or help run farms in Lauderdale County, with an average age of 59. 29% of them are women. 50 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 1 farm earns money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Lauderdale County stands out: it ranks #13 of 95 TN counties for total farm sales.