For food hubs, co-ops and collaborative CSAs

Forty growers.
One box list.

Every grower's catalog, every buyer type and every route in one place. Retail, wholesale, SNAP/EBT and member boxes, sold off one inventory and packed off one list.

You can't just open a pickup site and think the memberships will fill themselves.
Aliza Pickering · The Day Dream Farmer, Wilton, NY
Aliza Pickering of The Day Dream Farmer, a cooperative CSA in Wilton, New York
Aliza PickeringThe Day Dream Farmer · Wilton, NY Watch Aliza · 60 sec

What does your hub look like?

An aggregator with member boxes

One weekly box pulled from dozens of county growers, add-on lines riding along, and sometimes a school box on its own price list. That's the food hub.

Grower catalogsAdd-onsFarm to school

A collaborative CSA or co-op

Several farms each grow what they grow best and sell it as one CSA, with one storefront, one checkout and one pack list. That's the collaborative.

Partner farmsOne storefrontRolling signups
The work, in your language

Everything between the grower
and the pickup site

Growers and the shop

Every producer's availability, units and pack sizes, listed side by side in one shop. Send a new grower's price list by text and we list it, so nobody on your team has to learn the tool.

Texted to Farmhand · Mon 6:20 am
Hey farmhand — put Latremore Pine Ridge's eggs in the shop. $7.50 a dozen, and let members add them to their box.

The cutoff and the box list

Orders lock early enough that you can buy from your growers with a real number. When one comes up short, the swap lands on every box and on the pack list.

Texted to Farmhand · Tue 11:04 am
One of our growers is short on kale this week. Swap it out of the box list and put chard in instead.

Food access and support

EBT/SNAP at checkout, subsidized and sliding-scale shares on one price list, and a real person answering members seven days a week in your hub's voice.

Texted to Farmhand · Wed 4:47 pm
Set up the school box for fall on its own price list — families and staff only.

Four pickup sites and a trailer. 100+ members in 90 days.

Aliza runs a cooperative CSA, a garden center and a farmstand, and her neighbors' harvest sells alongside her own. Members join on a rolling basis and pay by the week. Sites at a hospital, a YMCA, a college and a local employer fill because someone keeps working them.

Aliza PickeringThe Day Dream Farmer · Wilton, NY
Packed Day Dream Farmer vegetable boxes stacked for a workplace pickup
The Day Dream Farmer's pickup-site picker: AIM Services, Malta YMCA, Saratoga Hospital and Skidmore College
YOU TEXTSkidmore's full — start a waitlist there and open 20 more spots at Malta YMCA.
Proof

Hubs that run
on Farmhand

My hands used to be in every little bit of our harvest box program. Now I look through the conversations Farmhand has with our customers and I'm like — oh my god, they're literally doing everything.
Hailee NolteNCGA · Harvest Hub · Humboldt County, CA

Independent farms, dairies, hubs, and co-ops running on Farmhand

Collaborative CSAThe Day Dream FarmerMilkmaid’s MarketSea Goat FarmstandPlow to PorchFlat Tack FarmPASEA Central Coast CSANCGA Harvest HubDel Norte County Harvest BoxWe All EatRiverdog FarmJ.R. OrganicsLive Earth FarmArmagh CreameryHeavy Hollow FarmStill Life Farm

A checkout built
for every household

  • SNAP/EBT at checkout, flagged at the product level
  • Pay-what-you-can, subsidized and sponsored shares on one price list
  • A donation pool other members can pay into at the same checkout
  • Declined cards retried automatically, with a branded link to fix them

You bring the growers.
We'll handle everything past the cutoff.

Growers, members, sites and your website move over for you. Most farms are live inside two weeks.

Fifteen minutes with Ari, our founder and a farmer. No sales team.