HAMILTON COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Hamilton County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Texas for Carlton, Hamilton and and Pottsville. 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 Hamilton County by the Numbers

Hamilton County has 964 farms on 515,913 acres (about 535 acres each). Together they sold $100.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by dairy (milk), cattle and sheep & goats.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, pears and apples. Beekeepers tend about 159 honey bee colonies.

23 farms in Hamilton County already sell straight to the public, about $62,000 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 Hamilton County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 64,695 head of cattle, 9,093 sheep and 5,993 goats in Hamilton County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,663 people run or help run farms in Hamilton County, with an average age of 63. 38% of them are women. 82 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 22 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Hamilton County stands out: it ranks #32 of 241 TX counties for goats.