FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)

General Questions

What is Farmfoody.org?

Farmfoody.org is the first social network centered around independent farms and eating fresh, local food. We connect farmers to people interested in creating a community to support the small independent farm practicing sustainable agriculture.

How do I add my farm?

Sign up for a Farmer account. It's as simple as that. Once you sign up you can manage your farm's presence on our site.

Can I add a farmer's market, CSA or vineyard?

Yes, sign up for a Farmer account (farmer's markets and CSA's should follow the special instructions on the registration page).

Is this site for everyone?

Yes, anyone who loves great tasting food made from fresh local ingredients of the highest quality and nutrition and wants to know where their food comes from will find Farm Foody beneficial. Sign up for a Foodie account. What's a foodie? Try this article from Slashfood, What is a Foodie Anyway?

How does Farm Foody work?

By creating a social network, farmers can communicate more naturally and easily with customers and their customers can receive information they need conveniently. People with a love for a particular farm can become its friends. People who love farm fresh food can become friends with each other, etc. By placing farmers and customers equal footing in the social network, people are free to build a community with relationships similar to those that once existed in small town America. Farmers and their customers lived and worked in the same community. They knew each other and interacted on a daily basis. People knew where their food came from and they knew who grew their produce and raised their livestock. We hope our site can restore something of this relationship.

How much does it cost to use Farmfoody.org?

Farmfoody.org is FREE social networking for farmers, gardeners, chefs and everyone. Our social networking services will always be free.

How can Farmfoody.org be free?

We intend to support the site through advertising, either text based Google Ads, by farmers marketing niche goods and services on our site or through advertisements of farm and garden related products. We are also considering offering specialized services to farmers for an extra fee. We dislike websites overloaded with advertising, so we promise to keep it to a minimum. We believe the basic social networking services are supportable without charging users a fee.

What is the difference between a "foody" user account and a "farm" user account?

Social networking sites frequently offer different types of accounts to users with different needs. For example, Musicians may get a special account that allows them to display tour dates. On our site, farmers can sign up for a Farmer account that allows them to take advantage of farm-related features. A Foodie account is for everyone. We also welcome pick your own, farm stands, farmer's markets and CSA's and other types of accounts may be offered in the future.

How do I receive bulletins from a farm?

To receive a bulletin from a farm (a user with a farmer account), you must become a friend of the farm(er). Farms are users in the social network just like everyone else, except their user name is typically the name of their farm and has special content. This is similar to a profile for a musical group on a non-farm social network. Please note: you will receive email notifications when bulletins are sent.

How do I cancel my account?

Please contact us using the contact form to cancel your account.

How do I stop recieving email?

Please contact us using the contact form to cancel your account.

Your Profile and Preferences

How do I get to my account?

Click the My Account link displayed at the top of most pages. You must be logged in to access your account.

How do I get to my homepage?

Click the You item on the menu at the top of each page.

Can I change my user name?

We do not allow users to change their user names. Please choose your user name carefully. If there is a mistake in the name of a farm, please contact us to help resole the matter. We may be able to make a correction to the user name for a farm account. We can always delete your account and you can create a new user identity with the correct name.

I cannot find any search results near my location. Why?

Unless entering a zip code into our locality search, you must specify a state and city. A comma separating city from state is required: City COMMA State, like this: The Plains, Virginia. You may use standard two letter state abbreviations: Arlington, VA.

Not all zip codes may appear in our database. Please use our contact page to report any missing zip codes. Currently, no geographical location to zipcode database contains all locations.

Our site started out including organic farms in Virginia. As other farms and users sign up, the geographical areas covered will expand.

Help

Profile

To edit your profile:

  1. Sign in
  2. Go to "My Account" then, choose Edit Profile
  3. Make your changes
  4. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on Save.
  5. Go back to your profile or "view profile"

Bulletins

To add a bulletin, from the My Account page, click Add, complete and submit the form.

To edit a bulletin, go to Manage Bulletins, find the bulletin in the listing and click Edit. Complete the form and submit.

Contacts

You may add any user to your list of contacts. You must be signed in to add a contact.

Contacts are useful for keeping track of others on the site. They are more like favorites than friends, so you may add your favorite farms to the list of contacts.

When you add someone to your list of contacts, they appear in your contacts list. When a person adds you as a contact, they appear in your contacts list as well (but not in public). Contacts do not appear anywhere on the site in public, as friends do. This is because contacts do not require approval. Someone can add you as their contact without your permission, but they cannot make you a friend without your permission. When a person is both a friend and a contact, they also show up in contacts.

Friends

You may ask another user to become a friend. A friendship relation requires approval of both parties before you or the other person are displayed publicly on the site as friends. Becoming a friend enables you to receive notification when friends post bulletins.

Approving a Friend

  1. Sign in to your account
  2. You will be at your My Account page
  3. Scroll down to Contacts and Friends, click the Friend requests link.
  4. Click Approve

You will receive an email message when someone is requesting to become a friend.

Farm Information

Farmer accounts come with fields for entering information about your farm. The Farm Name appears on maps and in search listings.

Editing Your Farm Description: Enter information about your farm into the text field. You may use HTML if you know it. Entering <p> creates a paragraph. Or you can just enter a blank line between blocks of text to automatically separate them.