BOWIE COUNTY MARKET

Bowie County, Texas Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 This is the Bowie County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Texas for Boston, De Kalb and Redwater. Texas favorites like onions and citrus show up here when they're in season. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Bowie County by the Numbers

Bowie County has 1,267 farms on 256,027 acres (about 202 acres each). Together they sold $116.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, cattle and hay & other field crops.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, chestnuts and peaches, and local fields produce pumpkins, watermelons, bell peppers and okra. Beekeepers tend about 226 honey bee colonies.

36 farms in Bowie County already sell straight to the public, about $61,000 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 Bowie County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 59,834 head of cattle, 5,773 egg-laying hens and 1,597 horses and ponies in Bowie County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 2,108 people run or help run farms in Bowie County, with an average age of 60. 38% of them are women. 142 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 8 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.