For community groups, markets & local businesses
Bring local food to your neighbourhood.
Homegrown lets you turn any food-safe space into a drop point for local farms and food producers. Vendors manage their own inventory, orders, and customer relationships. You provide the location, on terms that make sense for you.
Local farms need to get food to their customers, and shoppers need more convenient options. A commercial kitchen, a corner store, or a farm stand — a little space in the right place can make it happen.
Earn from it
Get paid for supporting local.
Charge a fee on sales through your hub to cover operating costs or generate additional revenue for your business.
Set a fee of up to 20% of producer sales
Collected automatically with every order — no invoicing
Paid out to you monthly
Producers agree to it when they join
Estimate your earnings
Orders picked up at your hub each week
40 orders
40 orders × about $50 each ≈ $2,000 in sales a week
Your fee
8%
You earn
$160 / week
That’s about $690 a month, paid out monthly. The average Homegrown order is around $50. Your sales may differ.
Why host
A new revenue stream, without new risk.
Sold before it arrives
Buyers pay up front, so everything that reaches you is already sold. No stock to buy, no markup to set, and no spoilage.
Producers do the work
Each producer handles their own listings, inventory and customers. Orders usually arrive within a day of pickup. All you have to do is hold them until they're collected.
More people through your door
Every pickup brings in a customer who cares about local food. For shops, that's a new customer browsing your shelves. For non-profits, it's community engagement.
Monetize hard-to-stock items
CSA boxes, bulk meat and small-batch seasonal goods sell well by pre-order and poorly off a shelf. Producers sell them through you, alongside everything you already offer.
You choose who sells
Producers apply to join and you approve or decline. Ask for what you need first, from food safety certificates to liability insurance.
Found by buyers and producers
Buyers nearby see your hub when they browse, and local producers can find it and request to join. Today's drop-off vendor could be tomorrow's supplier.
Ways to run it
A hub can be a market, a co-op, or the shop down the street.
Call it a food hub, a market or a pickup location — choose the model that matches how yours works. You can change it later.
Collaborative
Farmers-market style. Each producer packs and hands over their own orders at your location.
Producers run their own pickups
Great for markets and shared stalls
Light-touch for organizers
Managed
Co-op style. Producers drop off, and your team hands orders to buyers and marks them complete.
See every producer's orders for a pickup day
Complete orders on producers' behalf
Built for co-ops and food hubs with staff
Drop point
For grocers, cafés and other local businesses. Producers drop off orders, and buyers collect them from your counter.
Brings new customers through your door
Needs a shelf or a cooler, not a warehouse
Earn a fee on every order
Selling your own products? See Homegrown for producers