About the data
Where the listings come from
Every place starts from an official public record of the business — farmers markets, on-farm markets, CSAs, food hubs and agritourism — and from the farm's own website. Records are matched to each other, de-duplicated and checked before a page exists, and a place with too little to say does not get one. The database is rebuilt nightly; this copy is from 21 Oct 2026.
What “verified” means
A farm is marked verified with a month when we opened its own website and it answered. Directory dates that a listing has carried since 2014 are never shown as verification. Hours come from the farm's website where it publishes them; where it doesn't, the page says so instead of guessing, and “open now” is worked out in your browser in the farm's own time zone.
Which places get a page
A farm gets its own page only with an address, coordinates and at least three more facts on record — phone, website, hours, what it sells, a description, how it receives visitors, an online shop, or organic certification. A city page needs five such farms. Everything else is listed by name under its town and stays on the map in the app.
Distances and “the middle of town”
Distances on city pages are straight lines from the middle of that city's listings, not driving distance and not from a courthouse. Seasonal guides reach 25 miles around a city; a suburb whose list is mostly the same as a bigger neighbour's is folded into it.
Season windows
Where a farm reports its own season, that is what its page shows. The windows on the seasonal guides are the continental-US norm from the USDA seasonal produce guide; local gates open and close weeks either side. Counts are farms that list the crop themselves.
The numbers
“80,000+” is how the directory's total size is quoted. Every number next to a state, a city or a crop is the exact count in the current copy of the database.
Something wrong?
Write to support@viralyze.org with the farm's name and town. Corrections go into the same database the app uses.