STEWART COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Stewart County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Tennessee for Big Rock, Bumpus Mills and and Indian Mound. Tennessee favorites like honey and tomatoes show up here when they're in season. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Stewart County by the Numbers

Stewart County has 360 farms on 57,371 acres (about 159 acres each). Together they sold $4.2 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, hay & other field crops and tobacco.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, peaches and figs, and local fields produce pumpkins, potatoes, sweet corn and watermelons. Beekeepers tend about 81 honey bee colonies.

11 farms in Stewart County already sell straight to the public, about $40,000 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 Stewart County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 5,742 head of cattle, 1,414 egg-laying hens and 446 goats in Stewart County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 578 people run or help run farms in Stewart County, with an average age of 59. 33% of them are women. 18 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 6 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.