LIMESTONE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Limestone County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Texas for Coolidge, Groesbeck and Tehuacana. Texas favorites like onions and citrus show up here when they're in season. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Limestone County by the Numbers

Limestone County has 1,263 farms on 458,104 acres (about 363 acres each). Together they sold $95.6 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, poultry & eggs and nursery & greenhouse plants.

Local fields produce okra, squash, sweet corn and kale. Beekeepers tend about 53 honey bee colonies.

21 farms in Limestone County already sell straight to the public, about $541,000 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 Limestone County

Limestone County farms and homesteads keep 76,331 head of cattle, 3,596 sheep and 1,358 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 2,160 people run or help run farms in Limestone County, with an average age of 62. 40% of them are women. 93 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 12 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Limestone County stands out: it ranks #36 of 196 TX counties for selling food straight to the public.