HAYS COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Hays County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Austin, Buda and Uhland. 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 Hays County by the Numbers

Hays County has 940 farms on 142,428 acres (about 152 acres each). Together they sold $29.2 million of farm products in 2022, led by nursery & greenhouse plants, cattle and horses.

Orchards and vineyards here grow olives, grapes and peaches, and local fields produce chile peppers, tomatoes and bell peppers. Beekeepers tend about 787 honey bee colonies.

84 farms in Hays County already sell straight to the public, about $1.9 million 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 Hays County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 7,610 head of cattle, 4,628 goats and 3,491 egg-laying hens in Hays County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,692 people run or help run farms in Hays County, with an average age of 61. 42% of them are women. 69 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 39 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Hays County stands out: it ranks #9 of 196 TX counties for selling food straight to the public and #40 of 241 TX counties for goats.