COKE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Coke County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Texas for Bronte, Robert Lee and and Tennyson. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Coke County by the Numbers

Coke County has 433 farms on 478,560 acres (about 1,105 acres each). Together they sold $10.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, sheep & goats and hay & other field crops.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, and local fields produce squash, okra and watermelons. Beekeepers tend about 56 honey bee colonies.

2 farms in Coke County already sell straight to the public. 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 Coke County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Coke County counts 9,461 head of cattle, 3,586 goats and 3,160 sheep. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 732 people run or help run farms in Coke County, with an average age of 61. 36% of them are women. 38 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 27 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.