TITUS COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Cookville, Mount Pleasant and and Winfield buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Titus County by the Numbers

Titus County has 687 farms on 139,188 acres (about 203 acres each). Together they sold $223 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, cattle and hay & other field crops.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, apples and plums. Beekeepers tend about 124 honey bee colonies.

32 farms in Titus County already sell straight to the public, about $42,000 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 Titus County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Titus County counts 27,565 head of cattle, 2,662 egg-laying hens and 1,056 goats. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,210 people run or help run farms in Titus County, with an average age of 60. 41% of them are women. 63 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 8 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Titus County stands out: it ranks #28 of 252 TX counties for total farm sales.