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A personal invitation

I would like you on FarmCo before we open it up

You are getting this link because I know your food, or because we have worked together before. This is not the page everybody sees. I am inviting a small number of farms I already trust to come on first, while I still have the time to set each of you up myself.

FarmCo has been rebuilt, and the thing that changed is not the website. It is what sits behind it.

An online marketplace that finally meets the real world. Your gate, your days, your schedule.

Customers order online. You hand it over in person, from your own farm gate, your barn, your shop, or a shared point down the road if that suits you better. You can run more than one collection point. You choose which days you do it, and you can change your mind next week.

It runs to the same rhythm every week, so it stops being a decision. The point of all of it is that you spend your time producing good food, not rewriting order lists, chasing payments and working out who is collecting what and when.

This works whatever you have set up already

No website, no system, no time to build one Then this is the whole thing done for you. Your own page, your products, your prices, your collection details, and a list every Wednesday telling you exactly what to pick. Nothing to install and nothing to learn.
Already sorted, with a van, a round and staff Then take it as another channel that costs you nothing to open. It fits around what you already run rather than replacing it, and several farms have ended up moving their existing regular orders onto it too, so the whole week sits in one list instead of three.

What it costs, for farms coming on now

5% Collection, from your gate or a collection point.
5% Local delivery, on your own round. Normally 7.5%

Commission on your own base price. You keep the delivery fee in full. No listing fees, no monthly fee, no tie in, and nothing at all until you sell something.

I will be straight with you about why it is this low right now. We are about to start onboarding a lot more farms, and the rate for producers joining after that will be higher. Delivery in particular goes back to 7.5%. Coming on in the next few weeks is what holds these.

The week, in four lines

  • Tuesday night orders close, the same for every farm on the platform.
  • Wednesday morning your list arrives, picking and packing sheets ready to print.
  • Your chosen day between Wednesday and Sunday, you hand over. Your gate, your points, or your own round.
  • Then you are paid automatically. No invoicing and no chasing.

What I am actually asking for is a few weeks of your patience while it beds in. In return you get me on the end of the phone, your farm set up by hand rather than by a form, and first pick of your collection day before the calendar fills.

If it is not for you, no hard feelings and no follow up. And if you know another farm who should be on this list, tell me and I will approach them properly rather than sending them a form.

Jack Founder, FarmCo Market

Come on as a founding producer Takes about three minutes and comes straight to me. Or just reply to my email and I will fill it in with you over the phone.
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