RUTHERFORD COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Murfreesboro, Christiana and Milton buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Tennessee favorites like tomatoes and sweet corn show up here when they're in season. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Rutherford County by the Numbers

Rutherford County has 1,270 farms on 136,070 acres (about 107 acres each). Together they sold $35.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, hay & other field crops and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, apples and peaches, and local fields produce tomatoes, lettuce, pumpkins and chile peppers. Beekeepers tend about 639 honey bee colonies.

79 farms in Rutherford County already sell straight to the public, about $1.5 million 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 Rutherford County

Rutherford County farms and homesteads keep 19,867 head of cattle, 5,463 egg-laying hens and 2,250 goats. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 2,341 people run or help run farms in Rutherford County, with an average age of 58. 40% of them are women. 141 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 17 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Rutherford County stands out: it ranks #2 of 91 TN counties for selling food straight to the public and #3 of 92 TN counties for goats.