SHELBY COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Memphis, Germantown and Cordova buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Shelby County by the Numbers

Shelby County has 417 farms on 90,742 acres (about 218 acres each). Together they sold $39.3 million of farm products in 2022, led by soybeans, nursery & greenhouse plants and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, grapes and apples, and local fields produce tomatoes, squash, cucumbers and beets. Beekeepers tend about 179 honey bee colonies.

54 farms in Shelby County already sell straight to the public, about $875,000 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 Shelby County

Shelby County farms and homesteads keep 1,852 egg-laying hens, 1,331 horses and ponies and 220 goats. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 754 people run or help run farms in Shelby County, with an average age of 61. 33% of them are women. 32 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 20 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Shelby County stands out: it ranks #6 of 91 TN counties for selling food straight to the public.