Team
Advisors
Our Story
Farm2Me is a worldwide farm-to-fridge and wholesale delivery company. We have been operating in the San Francisco, New York City, and Austin area since 2011, and were one of the first companies nationally to specialize in researching and sourcing local foods from local farmers, ranchers, fishermen, bee-keepers, artisans, bottlers and more from over 300 cities worldwide, including 120 in the US.
We specialize in Box Subscriptions, as well as Individual Items to Consumers, and Case Distribution to Wholesale Clients — curated, locally sourced boxes, pieces, cases and pallets from local food makers and farms in your state. We secretly provide recipes with our boxes, often times contributed by local food makers and farmers in our community, you can find these recipes here: blog contributions.
For those that like to choose their own ingredients, Our marketplaces contain seasonal and regionally available products, delivered to your store or directly to your home. Farm2Me focuses on supporting local, organic, pesticide-free, GMO-free, small batch, sustainable produce and products, only. You never have to worry about that.
We currently have marketplaces in 120 cities in 40 US states, with immediate plans to expand to Canada, South Africa and Australia. Our products are also available on our storefront on AmazonFresh, where available. For nationwide delivery, you can purchase select items at Farm2Me US.
To help support our local food makers and farms, we launched our
We are also very proud to be a B Corporation, incorporated in the state of NY in 2012. We are legally bound to the world community and to our shareholders to do general social and environmental good, always.
Our goal is to be an integral part of the developing local food distribution network and the acceleration of local food makers and farms, worldwide.
Beginnings
From the beginning of the “local food movement” we were researching San Francisco as well as Chicago, Austin, Seattle and New York organizing a network of local food makers and farms. We started with 4 cities in March of 2011. Today, we have visited over 5,300 in 137 cities, and over 5 continents.
In 2012, while in New York City, Farm2me unexpectedly stepped up in response to Hurricane Sandy, and mobilized our network of 300 local food makers and farms in the tristate area to donate rescued food from over 100 makers in NY and NJ. The project allowed us to partner with Team Rubicon and United Peace Relief, a national farm for veteran program. We partnered to write tax deductible receipts to local food makers and farms in exchange for their food donations – which increased their profit, reduced their 30-50% waste, and supported their growth. The “Farm2me Sandy Relief” project, as it was called, fed over 100,000 meals in 4 months to 35 disaster relief sites in New York City and New Jersey. Our mission today continues to support local food makers + farms in this capacity by reducing food waste and partnering our network with nonprofit organizations all over the world, to fight food hunger, gleaning, food rescue, support food banks, food relief, and disaster response where needed. This included the Moore Tornado and Hawaii Hurricane relief efforts.
Since 2011, our team has expanded from researching a database and running a non-profit mission – to develop an online marketplace for thousands of makers and farms. The online Farm2me marketplace went live in April 2014. Since deciding to make our network public, we’ve launched both a wholesale and a retail marketplace.
Team
Our team is as multicultural as the cities we represent. Each city is steeped in culinary tradition and culture — there’s no shortage in the growth of local food makers around the world. We’re happy to be able to expand the reach of local food makers and farms by delivering their goods to a growing community of local food members.
Our team is the foundation of Farm2me – a group whose mission it is to support local food makers while making local food more accessible to all. Our community outreach, customers, advocates, designers, chefs, advisors and farmers make this possible.
Advisors
Our team of advisors spans the world, from San Francisco to Madagascar, Frankfurt and back to New York. They are regular contributors and industry mavens to the local food movement. From farmers, to social entrepreneurs, philosophers and fair trade importers, our advisors connect from diverse disciplines. Our goal is to support and grow local food through collaboration and to protect the integrity of the marketplace.