WILSON COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Wilson County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Texas for Floresville, La Vernia and and Sutherland Sprin. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Wilson County by the Numbers

Wilson County has 2,503 farms on 393,148 acres (about 157 acres each). Together they sold $146.6 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, hay & other field crops and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, olives and peaches, and local fields produce bell peppers, okra, chile peppers and tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 394 honey bee colonies.

65 farms in Wilson 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 Wilson County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 110,390 head of cattle, 7,108 egg-laying hens and 2,886 sheep in Wilson County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 4,410 people run or help run farms in Wilson County, with an average age of 59. 39% of them are women. 334 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 30 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Wilson County stands out: it ranks #13 of 254 TX counties for number of farms and #42 of 252 TX counties for total farm sales.