RUSK COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Henderson, Laneville and Reklaw buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Texas favorites like peaches and onions show up here when they're in season. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Rusk County by the Numbers

Rusk County has 1,309 farms on 214,040 acres (about 164 acres each). Together they sold $105 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, cattle and hay & other field crops.

Orchards and vineyards here grow chestnuts, pears and apples, and local fields produce potatoes, watermelons, tomatoes and squash. Beekeepers tend about 94 honey bee colonies.

59 farms in Rusk County already sell straight to the public, about $88,000 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 Rusk County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 41,060 egg-laying hens, 40,965 head of cattle and 1,253 goats in Rusk County. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 2,192 people run or help run farms in Rusk County, with an average age of 60. 38% of them are women. 116 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 3 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Rusk County stands out: it ranks #15 of 231 TX counties for egg-laying hens.