LAMPASAS COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Lampasas County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Texas for Bend, Kempner and and Lometa. Texas favorites like pecans and peaches show up here when they're in season. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Lampasas County by the Numbers

Lampasas County has 1,076 farms on 448,284 acres (about 417 acres each). Together they sold $33.1 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, sheep & goats and horses.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, peaches and pears, and local fields produce okra, onions, tomatoes and green beans. Beekeepers tend about 138 honey bee colonies.

61 farms in Lampasas County already sell straight to the public, about $225,000 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 Lampasas County

Lampasas County farms and homesteads keep 27,057 head of cattle, 7,273 sheep and 6,446 goats. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,890 people run or help run farms in Lampasas County, with an average age of 61. 41% of them are women. 55 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 61 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Lampasas County stands out: it ranks #28 of 241 TX counties for goats.