Resources
Field notes from working farms.
A playbook every Friday from a farm that tried it, free workshops you can watch tonight, and how-tos for running your farm on Farmhand.
Winter Is a Pause, Not a CancellationHowling Fresh Farm runs its CSA year-round, with a winter blackout instead of an end date. Ryan Reece explains why members get paused instead of cancelled, and what that's done for revenue and retention.
Ryan Reece · Howling Fresh Farm
Sixteen Markets a Week: The Case for Still Doing ThemFarms are split on whether markets are still worth it. Here's the argument from one doing sixteen a week.
Michael Clark · JR Organics Farm
Automate, Delegate, Or Keep? How Melanie Decides.Shakefork Community Farm tills with three teams of oxen and runs its CSA on autopilot. Melanie sorted every job on the farm into three piles — automate, delegate, keep — and the keep pile is the interesting one.
Melanie Cunningham · Shakefork Community Farm
PlaybooksReal farms. Real wins.
Real farms. Real wins.
Real playbooks.
Winter Is a Pause, Not a CancellationHowling Fresh Farm runs its CSA year-round, with a winter blackout instead of an end date. Ryan Reece explains why members get paused instead of cancelled, and what that's done for revenue and retention.
Ryan Reece · Howling Fresh Farm
Sixteen Markets a Week: The Case for Still Doing ThemFarms are split on whether markets are still worth it. Here's the argument from one doing sixteen a week.
Michael Clark · JR Organics Farm
Automate, Delegate, Or Keep? How Melanie Decides.Shakefork Community Farm tills with three teams of oxen and runs its CSA on autopilot. Melanie sorted every job on the farm into three piles — automate, delegate, keep — and the keep pile is the interesting one.
Melanie Cunningham · Shakefork Community Farm
Why I'm betting on eventsAn afternoon on your farm is the cheapest customer you'll ever get — and most farm software treats it as a side feature. Our founder on why that's backwards, and what he's staking on it.
Ari Memar · Farmhand
You Can’t Schedule a FlukeLee’s corn video hit 4.6 million views — and it was one of the most un-polished videos they’d ever posted. What made it work, and the question nobody in a viral story asks.
Lee James · Tierra Vegetables
The Season Start Isn’t a Signup DeadlineLaci at Tagge’s Famous Fruit & Veggie Farms finished her first season on Farmhand with 1,500 members. The decision that got her there is one most farms make by default.
Laci Tagge · Tagge’s Famous Fruit & Veggie Farms
The Cream Already Paid for the MilkLucy Meade runs a 73-acre herdshare with her husband, with yogurt, cottage cheese, ice cream, eggs and meat alongside the milk. Her best-margin product started as what she fed the pigs.
Lucy Meade · Heavy Hollow Farm
I Didn't Market the CSA. I Marketed the Farm.Morgan at Wissel Farms grew her CSA over 50% with no CSA marketing. The growth was five years in the making, and capping the spots did more than any ad.
Morgan · Wissel Farms
Pickup Sites Don't Fill ThemselvesAliza Pickering grew her membership 8% in one month, almost half from a single new workplace pickup site. Here's the lesson that cost her a season to learn.
Aliza Pickering · The Day Dream Farmer
The Friday playbook
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Real farmers on the exact strategies they use to grow retention, boost sales, and save 12+ hours a week.
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Events · U-pickHow Pure Land Farm Makes 25% of Its Revenue Before Anyone PicksMegan Neubauer runs a 100% pick-your-own farm in McKinney, Texas — 250 pickers a morning, four mornings a week, two people. It ran first come, first served–until her best customers stopped getting in. Now admission is a quarter of her revenue, and season passes sell out before opening day.
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EventsHow Millsap Farms Makes $80K a Year From Pizza NightsCurtis Millsap runs a weekly pizza night at Millsap Farms — 250 adults, every Thursday, May through October. It started as a $50 mud oven and five friends. Now it's an $80,000 enterprise, and 6,000 of the farm's 8,000-person email list came from it.
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DairyHow Amber Grew Her Herdshare–Without Paid AdsAmber from Our Family Farms in Texas grew her herdshare by testing demand in social media groups, building trust with authentic content, and scaling through partner porch sites. In this short video, she breaks down the exact steps she took—and the systems she put in place—to scale.
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WellbeingFarm Stress Workshop: Tools for the Season You’re InAn expert-led conversation with the team at Purdue University Extension - Farm Stress Team
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SocialJust Post It: How Wissel Farms Turned Reels Into REAL SalesTune in for a simple, honest approach to posting on social — straight from a fourth-generation farmer who made it work.
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CSAGrow Your CSA Faster with Local Pickup SitesWatch the free digital workshop to learn how farmers are scaling their CSAs by partnering with local pickup sites—adding hundreds of members and streamlining operations along the way.
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CSABuild Shares That Actually Pay YouHow much goes in a small share vs. a large? What's the right number of items? How do you price half-shares without losing money? This free workshop answers all of it.
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CSAHow I Secured $40k in Renewals–in Under 2 WeeksHear how Melanie Cunningham of Shakefork Community Farm delivered a 70%+ CSA early renewal rate and $40,000 in sales — in less than two weeks.
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CSA · PanelHow 3 Veteran Farmers Run High-Retention Subscription Programs at ScaleA candid, 70-minute panel with three long-time CSA/farm share operators on what actually works across production, fulfillment, and member retention — moderated by Ari Memar.
Farmer storiesHow six farms
All farmer stories How six farms
run on Farmhand
Shakefork Community Farm$40K+ in renewals in under two weeks
Armagh Creamery2,600+ Creamery Club members, up from 1,000JR Organics FarmNearly doubled the CSA in twelve monthsHowling Fresh Farm200+ shares every two weeks, 11 host sitesHeavy Hollow Farm50% revenue growth from six add-on sharesThe Day Dream Farmer100+ new members in 90 daysHow-tos
Step by step, on Farmhand
Stuck on something? Each one's a quick walkthrough, and you can always just text us.
- Aug 6, 2026How to Accept SNAP EBT OnlineSNAP EBT Online is live on Farmhand — all six authorization steps with Forage and the FNA, and how long each one actually takes.
- Jul 2, 2026How to Manage Contacts & ListsSee everyone connected to your farm in one place — built-in segments, new contacts, custom lists, CSV exports, and lists you can message in campaigns.
- Jul 1, 2026How to Set a Member HoldPause a member's subscription while they're away — set the dates, choose which shares it covers, and lift the hold early if plans change.
- Jul 1, 2026How to Create a Contact & SubscriptionSign up a new member end to end — create the contact, build their subscription, apply coupons or credits, and check the first invoice before it bills.
- Jun 30, 2026How to Set Up Pre-ordersTake orders ahead of harvest — build a pre-order sale with its own dates and locations, publish it to your shop, and track exactly how many of each you've sold.
- Jun 30, 2026How to Manage Delivery Routes & DriversGive drivers a simple route view — move stops between vans, reoptimize, and track every delivery in real time.
- Jun 23, 2026How to Use the Box BuilderShow members what's being harvested and set up the products in their next box — target value tracking, variant swaps, reusing box lists, and cross-posting to your newsletter.
- Jun 15, 2026How to Manage Product InventoryTrack inventory in your base units, let carts deduct and return stock automatically, and set or remove limits in bulk from the product list page.
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- Sep 28, 2026Customer experienceShoppers can see where to pick up before signing upYour shop page now shows every pickup site and delivery option up front, so shoppers can pick one and start ordering right away.Built with Katie · Armagh Creamery
- Sep 18, 2026Sales & marketingLet your members bring you new membersSwitch on referrals: your members share a link, their friend gets a credit at signup, and the member earns one when that friend pays.Built with Cliff · CV Pilson Farm
- Sep 18, 2026Sales & marketingRun one event across many datesSet up a Pizza Night or U-Pick once, offer it on as many dates as you like, and let customers pick the date that suits them.Built with Megan · Pure Land Farm
- Sep 15, 2026SubscriptionsRun a true once-a-month CSAYour CSA can now run once a calendar month — twelve boxes a year on the same week each month, instead of thirteen on a drifting cycle.Built with Ryan · Pajaro Pastures
- Sep 2, 2026Customer experienceSpot first-time members on your sign-out sheetYour sign-out sheet now flags members picking up for the very first time, with a first-timer count for each location.Built with Katie · Armagh Creamery
- Aug 26, 2026Customer experienceCreating a hold tells members about orders it can't stopThe hold dialog now says plainly that orders past cutoff and paid shop orders still come — before a member is surprised by one.
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