LIVE OAK COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Live Oak County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in George West, Sandia and and Whitsett. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Live Oak County by the Numbers

Live Oak County has 793 farms on 414,029 acres (about 522 acres each). Together they sold $15 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, hay & other field crops and horses.

Beekeepers tend about 65 honey bee colonies.

24 farms in Live Oak County already sell straight to the public, about $305,000 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 Live Oak County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 28,697 head of cattle, 1,504 egg-laying hens and 1,037 goats in Live Oak County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,417 people run or help run farms in Live Oak County, with an average age of 60. 34% of them are women. 106 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 41 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.