WASHINGTON COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Washington County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Tennessee for Johnson City, Fall Branch and Telford. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Washington County by the Numbers

Washington County has 1,288 farms on 97,476 acres (about 76 acres each). Together they sold $51.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, hay & other field crops and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pears, apples and plums, and local fields produce pumpkins, sweet corn, green beans and squash. Beekeepers tend about 137 honey bee colonies.

58 farms in Washington County already sell straight to the public, about $882,000 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 Washington County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 38,648 head of cattle, 3,996 egg-laying hens and 1,333 horses and ponies in Washington County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 2,222 people run or help run farms in Washington County, with an average age of 59. 35% of them are women. 191 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 18 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Washington County stands out: it ranks #5 of 91 TN counties for selling food straight to the public and #7 of 95 TN counties for number of farms.