MONTGOMERY COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Conroe, Spring and Grangerland buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Texas favorites like peaches and onions show up here when they're in season. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Montgomery County by the Numbers

Montgomery County has 1,299 farms on 100,081 acres (about 77 acres each). Together they sold $25.1 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, nursery & greenhouse plants and poultry & eggs.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, grapes and persimmons, and local fields produce turnip greens, collard greens, pumpkins and mustard greens. Beekeepers tend about 1,103 honey bee colonies.

106 farms in Montgomery County already sell straight to the public, about $835,000 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 Montgomery County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 17,479 head of cattle, 9,729 egg-laying hens and 2,900 hogs in Montgomery County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 2,326 people run or help run farms in Montgomery County, with an average age of 59. 43% of them are women. 165 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 15 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Montgomery County stands out: it ranks #27 of 196 TX counties for selling food straight to the public and #32 of 231 TX counties for egg-laying hens.