MARSHALL COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Marshall County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Tennessee for Belfast, Chapel Hill and and Lewisburg. Watch for local honey when it comes into season in Tennessee. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Marshall County by the Numbers

Marshall County has 995 farms on 144,148 acres (about 145 acres each). Together they sold $85.5 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, cattle and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow peaches, apples and pears, and local fields produce tomatoes, sweet corn, pumpkins and cucumbers. Beekeepers tend about 197 honey bee colonies.

62 farms in Marshall County already sell straight to the public, about $242,000 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 Marshall County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Marshall County counts 31,166 head of cattle, 3,590 egg-laying hens and 2,012 sheep. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,662 people run or help run farms in Marshall County, with an average age of 59. 37% of them are women. 101 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.

Where Marshall County stands out: it ranks #9 of 92 TN counties for goats and #16 of 95 TN counties for number of farms.