CHAMBERS COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Hankamer, Monroe City and and Winnie buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. 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 Chambers County by the Numbers

Chambers County has 491 farms on 199,088 acres (about 405 acres each). Together they sold $53.2 million of farm products in 2022, led by rice, cattle and nursery & greenhouse plants.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, grapes and pears, and local fields produce bell peppers and tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 5,612 honey bee colonies.

19 farms in Chambers County already sell straight to the public, about $177,000 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 Chambers County

Chambers County farms and homesteads keep 26,562 head of cattle, 2,826 egg-laying hens and 600 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 825 people run or help run farms in Chambers County, with an average age of 56. 36% of them are women. 98 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 4 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Chambers County stands out: it ranks #9 of 192 TX counties for honey bee colonies.