HOOD COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Hood County has more backyard fruit trees and home gardens than anyone could eat from. Crop Market connects them with neighbors in Granbury, Cresson and and Tolar. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Hood County by the Numbers

Hood County has 1,109 farms on 124,769 acres (about 113 acres each). Together they sold $22.6 million of farm products in 2022, led by nursery & greenhouse plants, cattle and hay & other field crops.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, plums and nectarines, and local fields produce bell peppers, radishes, mustard greens and okra. Beekeepers tend about 370 honey bee colonies.

59 farms in Hood County already sell straight to the public, about $238,000 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 Hood County

Hood County farms and homesteads keep 15,773 head of cattle, 3,296 egg-laying hens and 2,466 goats. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,962 people run or help run farms in Hood County, with an average age of 60. 43% of them are women. 110 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 4 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.