WALLER COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Brookshire, Hempstead and and Waller buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Waller County by the Numbers

Waller County has 1,545 farms on 211,993 acres (about 137 acres each). Together they sold $106.6 million of farm products in 2022, led by nursery & greenhouse plants, cattle and rice.

Orchards and vineyards here grow persimmons and grapes, and local fields produce watermelons, tomatoes, green beans and sweet corn. Beekeepers tend about 632 honey bee colonies.

51 farms in Waller County already sell straight to the public, about $503,000 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 Waller County

Waller County farms and homesteads keep 41,576 head of cattle, 5,723 egg-laying hens and 3,572 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 2,743 people run or help run farms in Waller County, with an average age of 61. 43% of them are women. 180 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 19 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Waller County stands out: it ranks #45 of 254 TX counties for number of farms.