MONTGOMERY COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Clarksville, Adams and and Woodlawn buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Watch for local tomatoes when it comes into season in Tennessee. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Montgomery County by the Numbers

Montgomery County has 764 farms on 169,300 acres (about 222 acres each). Together they sold $87.2 million of farm products in 2022, led by soybeans, corn and hogs.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, grapes and chestnuts, and local fields produce pumpkins, sweet corn, tomatoes and kale. Beekeepers tend about 173 honey bee colonies.

45 farms in Montgomery County already sell straight to the public, about $343,000 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 Montgomery County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Montgomery County counts 27,392 hogs, 21,537 head of cattle and 2,363 egg-laying hens.

About 1,355 people run or help run farms in Montgomery County, with an average age of 60. 35% of them are women. 86 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 15 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.