We are steadily making changes to the site, as you may have noticed. One important change is we have decided, after some thought about the idea of bringing together ‘producers’ and ‘consumers,’ to return to just two account types, Farm (producer) and Foody (consumer), as we had originally envisioned.

If you had a ‘chef’ or ‘gardener’ account with us, you are not forgotten. We will be thinking in the coming months how to incorporate your unique requirements into our site. We recognize the contributions of chefs and gardeners to the farm food community. For now, chefs and gardeners can mark their accounts as special using tags. A chef can enter ‘chef’ as a tag and gardeners can enter ‘gardener’ as a tag. Although, your account type will appear in the listing as Foody, people can find you by searching for the tag.

There will be some fields associated with a chef or gardener account that will become inaccessible. We hope this is a minor inconvience, since the function of these fields can be taken up in a broader context by tags. Tags allow any of our users to match up based on their interests or products without the need for special “interests” fields. Just enter your interests or produce into the tags field. Look for improvements in tagging to come.

Please accept our apology for any inconvenience this change has caused.

We also have rolled out a tweaked version of our site design, which we hope conveys a stronger visual message of farm foods.