JASPER COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Bon Ami, Brookeland and and Sam Rayburn buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Jasper County by the Numbers

Jasper County has 919 farms on 63,695 acres (about 69 acres each). Together they sold $13.2 million of farm products in 2022, led by nursery & greenhouse plants, hay & other field crops and fruit & nuts.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, peaches and pears, and local fields produce potatoes, watermelons, tomatoes and squash. Beekeepers tend about 753 honey bee colonies.

37 farms in Jasper County already sell straight to the public, about $47,000 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 Jasper County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Jasper County counts 10,724 head of cattle, 5,110 egg-laying hens and 904 goats. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,558 people run or help run farms in Jasper County, with an average age of 59. 40% of them are women. 114 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 2 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.