PERRY COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Perry County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Tennessee for Flatwoods, and Lobelville. Tennessee favorites like sweet corn and strawberries show up here when they're in season. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Perry County by the Numbers

Perry County has 251 farms on 52,642 acres (about 210 acres each). Together they sold $4.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, cattle and hay & other field crops.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pears, peaches and apples, and local fields produce potatoes and tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 26 honey bee colonies.

11 farms in Perry County already sell straight to the public, about $32,000 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 Perry County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 2,450 head of cattle, 783 egg-laying hens and 486 goats in Perry County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 426 people run or help run farms in Perry County, with an average age of 58. 37% of them are women. 36 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 4 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.