TRINITY COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Trinity County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Apple Springs, Groveton and and Trinity. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Trinity County by the Numbers

Trinity County has 444 farms on 67,100 acres (about 151 acres each). Together they sold $8.2 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, hay & other field crops and vegetables.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, grapes and peaches, and local fields produce collard greens, cucumbers, watermelons and pumpkins. Beekeepers tend about 122 honey bee colonies.

16 farms in Trinity County already sell straight to the public, about $17,000 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 Trinity County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 14,074 head of cattle, 967 egg-laying hens and 500 goats in Trinity County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 728 people run or help run farms in Trinity County, with an average age of 62. 39% of them are women. 44 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 11 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.