PUTNAM COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Algood, Baxter and and Silver Point 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 Putnam County by the Numbers

Putnam County has 883 farms on 93,450 acres (about 106 acres each). Together they sold $15.1 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, hay & other field crops and soybeans.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, pears and plums, and local fields produce sweet corn, green beans, turnip greens and mustard greens. Beekeepers tend about 252 honey bee colonies.

51 farms in Putnam County already sell straight to the public, about $103,000 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 Putnam County

Putnam County farms and homesteads keep 16,089 head of cattle, 3,403 egg-laying hens and 1,289 goats. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,501 people run or help run farms in Putnam County, with an average age of 59. 38% of them are women. 116 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 7 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Putnam County stands out: it ranks #18 of 92 TN counties for goats.