WOOD COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Wood County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Alba, Golden and Winnsboro. Texas favorites like citrus and pecans show up here when they're in season. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Wood County by the Numbers

Wood County has 1,357 farms on 193,055 acres (about 142 acres each). Together they sold $225.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, cattle and dairy (milk).

Orchards and vineyards here grow peaches, pears and apples, and local fields produce watermelons, cantaloupes, tomatoes and pumpkins. Beekeepers tend about 193 honey bee colonies.

70 farms in Wood County already sell straight to the public, about $353,000 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 Wood County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 182,559 egg-laying hens, 38,019 head of cattle and 1,425 horses and ponies in Wood County. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 2,425 people run or help run farms in Wood County, with an average age of 60. 42% of them are women. 158 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 15 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Wood County stands out: it ranks #8 of 231 TX counties for egg-laying hens and #27 of 252 TX counties for total farm sales.