WHARTON COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Looking for food grown in Wharton County? Backyard growers and small farms around Boling, Danevang and Hungerford list it here. Watch for local peaches when it comes into season in Texas. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Wharton County by the Numbers

Wharton County has 1,472 farms on 553,800 acres (about 376 acres each). Together they sold $393.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by nursery & greenhouse plants, rice and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, grapes and grapefruit, and local fields produce pumpkins, spinach, potatoes and cucumbers. Beekeepers tend about 72 honey bee colonies.

25 farms in Wharton County already sell straight to the public, about $1.1 million 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 Wharton County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 55,612 head of cattle, 3,715 egg-laying hens and 1,126 horses and ponies in Wharton County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 2,661 people run or help run farms in Wharton County, with an average age of 59. 35% of them are women. 187 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 Wharton County stands out: it ranks #17 of 252 TX counties for total farm sales and #19 of 196 TX counties for selling food straight to the public.