CAMP COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Camp County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Leesburg, and Pittsburg. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Camp County by the Numbers

Camp County has 416 farms on 53,316 acres (about 128 acres each). Together they sold $183 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, cattle and hay & other field crops.

Orchards and vineyards here grow peaches, grapes and apples, and local fields produce squash. Beekeepers tend about 34 honey bee colonies.

14 farms in Camp County already sell straight to the public, about $310,000 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 Camp County

Camp County farms and homesteads keep 22,087 head of cattle, 481 horses and ponies and 247 goats. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 700 people run or help run farms in Camp County, with an average age of 59. 41% of them are women. 54 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 5 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Camp County stands out: it ranks #34 of 252 TX counties for total farm sales.