KINNEY COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Kinney County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Texas for Brackettville and the rest of Kinney County. Texas favorites like pecans and peaches 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 Kinney County by the Numbers

Kinney County has 190 farms on 615,924 acres (about 3,242 acres each). Together they sold $3.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, sheep & goats and honey.

Beekeepers tend about 6,338 honey bee colonies.

5 farms in Kinney County already sell straight to the public, about $23,000 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 Kinney County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 7,753 head of cattle, 4,192 goats and 2,384 sheep in Kinney County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 374 people run or help run farms in Kinney County, with an average age of 60. 31% of them are women. 39 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 33 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Kinney County stands out: it ranks #7 of 192 TX counties for honey bee colonies and #47 of 241 TX counties for goats.