KENT COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Kent County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Texas for Girard, and Jayton. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Kent County by the Numbers

Kent County has 137 farms on 589,592 acres (about 4,304 acres each). Together they sold $9.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, horses and cotton.

Beekeepers tend about 48 honey bee colonies.

2 farms in Kent County already sell straight to the public. 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 Kent County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 11,954 head of cattle, 347 horses and ponies and 107 goats in Kent County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 262 people run or help run farms in Kent County, with an average age of 60. 37% of them are women. 17 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 15 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.