KNOX COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Knox County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Texas for Benjamin, Goree and and Munday. 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 Knox County by the Numbers

Knox County has 259 farms on 544,231 acres (about 2,101 acres each). Together they sold $26.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, wheat and cotton.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans and plums.

6 farms in Knox County already sell straight to the public, about $6,000 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 Knox County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Knox County counts 21,063 head of cattle, 1,215 sheep and 359 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 412 people run or help run farms in Knox County, with an average age of 59. 27% of them are women. 16 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 21 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.