HILL COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Hill County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Abbott, Aquilla and Bynum. Texas favorites like peaches and onions show up here when they're in season. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Hill County by the Numbers

Hill County has 2,011 farms on 566,852 acres (about 282 acres each). Together they sold $129.9 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, cattle and wheat.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, peaches and pears, and local fields produce watermelons, cucumbers, tomatoes and okra. Beekeepers tend about 1,040 honey bee colonies.

48 farms in Hill County already sell straight to the public, about $1.2 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 Hill County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 51,427 head of cattle, 38,672 egg-laying hens and 5,253 sheep in Hill County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 3,467 people run or help run farms in Hill County, with an average age of 60. 40% of them are women. 187 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 6 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Hill County stands out: it ranks #16 of 231 TX counties for egg-laying hens and #17 of 196 TX counties for selling food straight to the public.