MECKLENBURG COUNTY MARKET

Mecklenburg County, Virginia Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 From Baskerville to Chase City, Mecklenburg County gardeners, small farms and home cooks post their extra harvest here for people nearby. Virginia favorites like sweet potatoes and apples 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 Mecklenburg County by the Numbers

Mecklenburg County has 394 farms on 123,797 acres (about 314 acres each). Together they sold $39.2 million of farm products in 2022, led by tobacco, nursery & greenhouse plants and soybeans.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, apples and pears, and local fields produce cabbage, broccoli, potatoes and turnip greens. Beekeepers tend about 75 honey bee colonies.

20 farms in Mecklenburg County already sell straight to the public, about $60,000 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 Mecklenburg County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 11,171 head of cattle, 1,098 egg-laying hens and 371 goats in Mecklenburg County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 697 people run or help run farms in Mecklenburg County, with an average age of 61. 36% of them are women. 48 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 3 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.