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Guides

What you need to know to buy straight from whoever grows it. Start with the first one if you never have.

The first time you buy at a farm

How buying straight from a farm works: when to go, what to take, what to expect and what not to do.

The ways of buying from a farm

At the farm, a box to your door, a growers' market, their own shop or a co-op: what each one is and who it suits.

What to ask (and what the answer tells you)

Eight questions that tell whoever grows it apart from whoever resells it, without suspicion and without speeches.

How to find the farm you want

Search by produce, by village or on the map: how to use the directory to reach the right farm.

Buying in quantity, preserving and running a group

For people already buying direct: volume for preserving, a weekly round between farms, and group orders.

How this site works

Where every fact comes from, why there are no marks and no ratings, and what a farm can do with its page.

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