HARRISON COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Harrison County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Texas for Hallsville, Harleton and and Waskom. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Harrison County by the Numbers

Harrison County has 1,015 farms on 121,801 acres (about 120 acres each). Together they sold $13 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, hay & other field crops and vegetables.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, grapes and hazelnuts, and local fields produce watermelons, squash, tomatoes and cucumbers. Beekeepers tend about 344 honey bee colonies.

78 farms in Harrison County already sell straight to the public, about $110,000 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 Harrison County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 21,767 head of cattle, 4,131 egg-laying hens and 1,259 horses and ponies in Harrison County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,727 people run or help run farms in Harrison County, with an average age of 60. 38% of them are women. 111 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 3 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.