NUECES COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Corpus Christi, Agua Dulce and Driscoll buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Texas favorites like citrus and pecans show up here when they're in season. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Nueces County by the Numbers

Nueces County has 549 farms on 530,663 acres (about 967 acres each). Together they sold $140 million of farm products in 2022, led by cotton, sorghum and corn.

Beekeepers tend about 18 honey bee colonies.

8 farms in Nueces County already sell straight to the public, about $11,000 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 Nueces County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 6,983 head of cattle, 1,200 egg-laying hens and 432 horses and ponies in Nueces County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,011 people run or help run farms in Nueces County, with an average age of 61. 31% of them are women. 42 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 5 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Nueces County stands out: it ranks #45 of 252 TX counties for total farm sales.