HUNT COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Hunt County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Greenville, Caddo Mills and Lone Oak. Texas favorites like citrus and pecans show up here when they're in season. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Hunt County by the Numbers

Hunt County has 3,504 farms on 355,339 acres (about 101 acres each). Together they sold $82.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, wheat and hay & other field crops.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, peaches and pears, and local fields produce cantaloupes, watermelons, tomatoes and okra. Beekeepers tend about 4,977 honey bee colonies.

150 farms in Hunt County already sell straight to the public, about $813,000 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 Hunt County

Hunt County farms and homesteads keep 57,253 head of cattle, 23,632 egg-laying hens and 6,116 goats. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 5,945 people run or help run farms in Hunt County, with an average age of 59. 42% of them are women. 350 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 24 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Hunt County stands out: it ranks #3 of 254 TX counties for number of farms and #10 of 192 TX counties for honey bee colonies.