Six growing sectors. 8 independent farms. 15 harvests shipping this month. Choose a sector on the map to see the growers, what they're pulling out of the ground right now, and the story behind each one — then buy it direct, in bulk, with no supermarket standing in between.
Ask anything about who grows what here, when a crop peaks, how it travels, or what to buy in bulk this month.
Ground, seed, rain, hands. Everything in this index still moves the oldest way there is — someone grows it, and you buy it from them.
Nominate a farmerOjai canyon citrus, Willamette berry co-ops, tree-ripe stone fruit and olives picked at dead ripeness.
A three-generation family orchard in the Ojai Valley growing Pixie tangerines, stone fruit, avocados, and olives on 40 hillside acres. Fruit is hand-picked at ripeness — nothing gassed, nothing cold-stored.
A co-op of eleven small berry farms in the Willamette Valley: marionberries, Chester blackberries, Duke blueberries, and June-bearing strawberries — all hand-picked at dead ripeness.
Passive-solar tunnels on the Rockies' front range. Cold-sweetened greens twelve months of the year.
Passive-solar high-tunnel greens grown at 5,400 ft on the front range of the Rockies. Twelve-month lettuce, spinach, and hardy Asian brassicas from a single-family operation.
Ridges the last glacier never touched. Storage crops, winter squash, cabbages, heritage apples, pastured meat and eggs.
A cooperative of six family farms in the Driftless Area growing storage crops — potatoes, winter squash, cabbages, heritage apples — on ridge-top soils that never saw the last glacier.
Freestone peach country through the Gulf heat. Muscadines, figs, okra, field peas and long-season fruit.
Fifth-generation Georgia peach growers with 120 acres of freestone varieties, plus muscadines, figs, and okra. Fruit is tree-ripened and hand-graded — never gas-cooled.
Horse-powered Amish vegetable ground and tidewater truck farms. Sweet corn, brassicas, heirloom melons.
A horse-powered Amish diversified vegetable farm in the rolling limestone soils of Lancaster County. Four generations growing sweet corn, brassicas, and heirloom melons without synthetic inputs.
Hudson Valley market gardens and granite-ledge coastal farms. Root cellars, orchards, lowbush blueberries and sea vegetables.
A 22-acre family vegetable farm outside Rhinebeck, growing 180 varieties of heirloom vegetables, salad greens, and berries on regeneratively managed soil. Everything in the basket is picked the morning it ships.
A coastal Maine farm growing sugar kelp, dulse, and shore vegetables alongside heritage potatoes and wild lowbush blueberries on granite-ledge fields overlooking Blue Hill Bay.
Buy a side of beef, a case of eggs, a crate of peaches or a day-boat catch straight from the people who raised it — in bulk, at quality you can trace back to the soil it came out of.