Farmers shouldn't have to burn out to feed their neighbors.

That's the whole reason Farmhand exists. Everything after this is just how we do it.

Farmer Laci Tagge and Ari Memar holding a packed box at Tagge's Farm
Fulfillment day at Tagge's Farm, Park City, UT
Ari Memar holding a strawberry in the rows at JR Organics
Strawberry rows at JR Organics, San Diego County
Ari Memar with a group of farmers under string lights
Out visiting farms
What we believe

Thirteen cents on the dollar isn't a business model.

Farmers keep thirteen cents on every dollar. The rest is slow-motion liquidation. Direct-to-consumer farming is the correction, and these are the beliefs that make it durable.

01

Your farm is not a commodity.

No other farm has your soil, your animals, your customers or your story. Software that treats you as a row in a database will fail you, and messaging that treats your product as interchangeable will fail your customers. Everything we build starts from the fact that you are one of one.

Before we built multi-driver route optimization, our founder rode shotgun with Farmer Laci through a full fulfillment day at Tagge's Farm in Park City, Utah. We wanted to see where the friction was and what she'd built workarounds for before we wrote a line of code. She became a customer after the tools already fit her operation.

Farmers deserve the full dollar. Not thirteen cents of it.The industrial food system extracts value from the people doing the hardest work. Farmhand is independent and farmer-founded, and every dollar you pay funds tools for farms like yours.
02

The software is the table. What matters is who's sitting at it.

There is plenty of farm software, and some of it is good. None of it picks up on a Tuesday night when your Wednesday pickup is twelve hours away and the plan has fallen apart. The reason we exist is the part you can't screenshot: the people, the coaching and the real answers when you need them.

Farmer Aleta at Beet Generation in Forestville, California had a newborn at home, an unseasonal frost rolling in and a crew clocking out for the day. We showed up and helped lay frost blankets as the temperature dropped. That will never be a feature in the app. It's the part of the job that doesn't scale, and doing it anyway is the whole point.

Producers win together, or not at all.A local food economy is built by farms that trade wholesale, share customers, cover each other's gaps and lift each other's reputations. A thriving regional food network is worth more than any single farm's margin, and we build tools that assume it.
03

Food is the most honest relationship a person can have with their place.

When someone meets their farmer, walks the fields and tastes a tomato picked that morning, they stop shopping and eating the same way. They become a customer for life, and more than that, part of something: a healthier person, community and land, one household at a time.

Our team has picked strawberries in the rows with Farmer Michael at JR Organics in San Diego. Hot sun, warm berries, eaten right there in the row, with no spray on them and no supply chain between the plant and your mouth. That's the product, and it's what we're here to protect.

Every person should have a farmer, the way they have a doctor.In the future we're building toward, every household has a farm with a name, a face and a place, and every farm has neighbors who show up. The technology should serve that relationship, never replace it.
The team

The people behind
the platform

We visit every farm we can get to. We've laid frost blankets, picked strawberries in the heat and ridden along on delivery routes before we built routing. We pick up the phone on Sundays. None of that shows up in a product demo, and it's the work that matters most.

Ari Memar
Ari MemarFounder & CEO
Michelle Keniston
Michelle KenistonHead of Marketing & Operations
Chris Guerrero
Chris GuerreroHead of Design
Charlie Davis
Charlie DavisLead Software Engineer
Emily Feldman
Emily FeldmanPrograms & Administrative Manager
Emily Yanchak
Emily YanchakProduct Manager
Justin Beaver
Justin BeaverSenior Software Engineer
Jake Collins
Jake CollinsSoftware Engineer
Rena Thomas
Rena ThomasSoftware Engineer
Brandon Chase
Brandon ChaseFarmer Support Specialist
Where AI stops and the farmer startsAri on what we let software handle, and what stays with people.How we use AI →
Ari Memar leaning out of a white delivery van
How we got here

It started on a 5‑acre orchard.

Farmhand started in 2023, after Ari spent years on his own orchard outside Sebastopol, sharing fruit with neighboring CSA farmers and watching them fight the same fights: bad software, broken signup flows, Sunday night emergencies with nowhere to turn. He didn't want to build another platform, so he built this instead.

200+farms and ranches
30,000+households
1M+local farm orders a year

Come talk with us.

Fifteen minutes with Ari, our founder, not a sales rep, about your farm, your members and whether we might be the partner you need.