For makers
Your recipe is part of the community
You bake the bread, blend the seasoning, simmer the sauce. Your neighbours already know your food, and CFT is a place to put it in front of more of them.
Makers apply the same way growers do, and you list and price your own work.
Why you matter
Food made close to home
A loaf or a jar made down the road ties the people who eat it to the person who made it.
A buyer for local ingredients
When you bake with local flour, eggs and butter, you are a customer for the growers around you too.
Proof that prepared food can be simple
Short ingredient lists people can read are exactly what we want shoppers to see.
Our rules for makers
These keep the community honest and the food local. See what we accept for the standards each food has to meet.
- Every ingredient in a meal or prepared item must be something normally found in a home kitchen. No ingredients known by a scientific or chemical name, and no such additives or preservatives.
- List every ingredient on each prepared item. Buyers see the full list and how many ingredients there are, and we really like minimal ingredients.
- Baked goods follow the standards of the foods their ingredients come from.
- 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.
- You set your own prices. CFT never sets, suggests, caps or changes a price.
- 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.