For growers & producers

The food starts with you

If you work a farm, keep a big garden, raise animals or tend a few backyard beds, you already know food literally grows out of the ground. Getting it from your field to a table near that field should be simple. Today it isn't, and we think you should have a real role in fixing that.

CFT is built so your customers are your neighbours. You list what you have, you name your price, and the people around you buy from you.

Apply as a producerHow producers join

Why you matter

  • You keep food local

    Each shopper is served by producers in their own area. Food travels a short distance, and farmers are tied more closely to their own communities.

  • You keep food as food

    Produce on CFT is grown from open-pollinated seed, with no synthetic pesticides and no patented strains. Food as nature intended, not intellectual property.

  • You set the table for everyone else

    Kitchens, makers and stores on CFT cook with what you grow. Without growers there is no network.

Our rules for growers & producers

These keep the community honest and the food local. See what we accept for the standards each food has to meet.

  • Producers anywhere in the US can apply. Shoppers see producers within 150 miles of where they are.
  • You set your own prices. CFT never sets, suggests, caps or changes a price.
  • Produce and herbs follow our listing standards: no genetically engineered strains, no commercial or patented seed, and no synthetic pesticides. Meat, dairy, eggs and every other department have their own listed on What we accept.
  • A certification is shown only after a CFT admin checks it. A growing or raising practice is shown as your own statement, so make only claims you could back up.
  • When you pack an order for pickup or delivery, food never touches plastic in transit. Pack it in paper, glass, metal, wood, cloth or beeswax wrap. No plastic bags, film, clamshells or plastic-lined containers. For jars, use lids that keep plastic off the food, such as glass lids with rubber rings. Ice and cold packs never touch the food, wrapped or not. A cooler is fine when the food inside is packed in something that isn't plastic.
  • Keep it true. Your listings, prices and availability must be accurate and current. If something changes, update it or pause the listing.
  • You are responsible for knowing and meeting the rules that apply to your products, such as licences and food safety.

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