For ranchers & meat producers

A chef's standing order, Tuesday's subscription boxes, and a half beef that hasn't come back from the processor. What you need is a Farmhand.

Wholesale, retail and subscriptions sold off one inventory — with deposits on whole animals, invoices priced off actual weight, and routes built around what has to stay cold.

When anything changes, you text it.

15 minutes with Ari — our founder, and a farmer.

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Monday 6:20 AM

Processor called — the Angus hung at 612 lbs. Bill the three quarter shares at $4.85 a pound and take their deposits off.
Invoiced all three off hanging weight, deposits credited against the balance. Two paid within the hour — I'll follow the third.

Tuesday 11:04 AM

Chef at Ember wants 40 lbs of ground every Thursday, standing.
Added them as a wholesale account on your wholesale price list, with a standing Thursday order. They see their pricing, nobody else does.

Wednesday 4:47 PM

We're heavy on pork chops. Run a flash sale tonight — 20% off, members and shop.
Live until midnight and sent by text and email to everyone who's bought pork from you. 41 orders so far.

Thursday 7:12 AM

Cold has to land first on the north route today.
Re-sequenced — frozen and refrigerated stops first, pantry and eggs after, arrive-by times updated. Driver has the new list.

Friday 5:55 AM

Any cards decline on the monthly boxes?
Six — five retried successfully overnight. I messaged the sixth with a link to update. Nothing for you to do.

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A real week. You text it, a person on our team does it.

Ranches and meat producers running on Farmhand

Heavy Hollow Farm Your Friends Farm Elemental Acres Napaluma Farms Harmony Hills Farmstead 4 Girvins Farm Milkmaid's Market Riverdog Farm

Live on Farmhand

You won't find your exact setup here. That's the point.

A club that fills in January, a half hog reserved in June for a September harvest, a monthly box that runs three counties. Same platform underneath, and none of them sell the way the others do.

A pastured hog grazing at Heavy Hollow Farm in Lancaster, Kentucky
Members · deposits · retail cuts

The Creamery Club reserves the year for member families. Whole and half animals sell on deposit months ahead of the kill date, and anyone can walk up and buy a ribeye off the same shop.

A2/A2 raw dairy · whole-animal deposits · retail by the cut

Heavy Hollow FarmLancaster, KY Visit the farm ↗
Katahdin lambs on pasture at Your Friends Farm near Spokane, Washington
Five species · whole-animal deposits

Pastured chicken, eggs, pork, grass-finished beef and Katahdin lamb, plus a summer veggie CSA and a pumpkin patch. Half and whole hogs sell on a $150 deposit with the harvest date posted up front and the balance billed on hanging weight.

5 livestock lines · $150 hog deposit · balance on hanging weight

Your Friends FarmSpokane, WA Visit the farm ↗
Bone-in Meishan pork chops from Elemental Acres in Rainier, Oregon
Retail · subscription · wholesale

One heritage Meishan herd sold down to the last cut — roasts in weight bands, a $775 half-hog saver pack, offal and lard, and soap made from the same animals. Subscription boxes and restaurant wholesale run off that catalog, alongside the food truck.

Weight-banded roasts · half-hog packs · wholesale & food truck

Elemental AcresRainier, OR Visit the farm ↗
A Napaluma Farms monthly pork box packed for delivery
Retail · box · wholesale

Heritage pork sold three ways off one herd — cuts in the shop, a monthly farmer's-choice box, and wholesale to buyers who want volume. One delivery run a month covers Sonoma, Napa and Marin.

3 counties · monthly route · farm pickup

Napaluma FarmsPetaluma, CA Visit the farm ↗
A roast from Harmony Hills Farmstead sliced on a board
Forage-raised · bundles

Registered Black Angus, Berkshire pork, pastured chicken and turkey, raised birth to processing on one farm in the Adirondack Park. Sold as bundles, subscriptions and one-time orders alongside the farmers' market.

4 species · bundles + subscriptions · market & farm pickup

Harmony Hills FarmsteadMalone, NY Visit the farm ↗
A salted beef tenderloin resting on a board
Buying club · home delivery

A member co-op that aggregates raw dairy, pastured meat and eggs from more than twenty Michigan farms, then delivers to the door or to a pickup site — with membership and payment handled at signup.

22+ partner farms · 100+ families · delivery & pickup sites

Milkmaid's MarketHamilton, MI Visit the co-op ↗

From a ranch already running this way

“I kind of had maxed out, not in terms of the products that I could provide, but in terms of the managing that I could do of that.”

Lucy Meade · Heavy Hollow Farm · Lancaster, KY

She runs a raw dairy, a meat operation and a members' club off the same herd — the Creamery Club reserves the year, and the shop sells what's left by the cut.

100+ families on the herdshare · 50% revenue growth from add-ons alone · 90+ items on one pack list

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Everything on one platform

01 — WHOLESALE, RETAIL & SUBSCRIPTIONS

Three price lists. One freezer behind all of them.

The same walk-in fills a chef's standing order, a Saturday shopper's cart and Tuesday's subscription boxes. When a case of ground leaves for one of them, the other two should already know.

  • A price list per buyer typeWholesale accounts see their pricing and terms. Retail sees retail. Members see theirs — off one catalog you maintain once.
  • Weekly, biweekly or monthly billingSet the cadence per plan and let members switch their own without calling you.
  • Inventory that reflects the freezerAdjust once when a cut runs out and every channel stops offering it.
  • Variants and units per cutPounds, packages, cases, by the each. Priced and tracked separately, listed side by side.
4 Girvins Farm's shop on Farmhand — beef, heritage pork, pastured poultry, dairy, eggs, bread, pantry and farm credit in one catalog
A Milkmaid's Market beef box listing on Farmhand, with the box size and price on the product page
You text

Put Ember Kitchen on wholesale pricing — 40 lbs of ground standing every Thursday.

02 — WHOLE ANIMAL

The animal sells in April. The weight comes back in October.

Whole, half and quarter sales are the largest orders you take and the hardest to invoice, because the number the price depends on is the one nobody has yet.

  • Deposits that hold the spotCollect a deposit at reservation and credit it against the final invoice automatically.
  • Priced on actual weightSet the rate, enter the weight when it comes back, and the balance invoices itself — no spreadsheet in between.
  • Preorders ahead of the processing dateOpen the fall's animals now and cap the count at what you'll actually have.
  • Weight-banded cuts for the shopSell a flank steak or a whole bird at its real size instead of averaging and eating the difference.
  • Balances that chase themselvesFinal invoices go out with a pay link and retry on their own when a card fails.
Your Friends Farm's Pork Deposit listing on Farmhand, showing the half-pig deposit, the harvest date and how the balance is calculated on hanging weight
Heavy Hollow Farm's Pastured Half Hog Deposit on Farmhand, taken against a finished weight of roughly 75 to 80 pounds
You text

The Angus hung at 612 lbs — bill the three quarter shares and credit their deposits.

03 — ROUTES & DELIVERY

Unlimited routes. Unlimited drivers.

  • Every route and every driver includedRun as many zones and drivers as the week needs. There's no per-route or per-seat charge on top.
  • Arrive-by windows per stopCommit to a time for an account or a drop site and build the run around it.
  • Cold-first sequencingOrder the stops so frozen and refrigerated land before anything that can sit.
  • Re-optimized the morning ofAdd a stop, drop one, or move a window and the run rebuilds itself.
  • Pack lists and sign-out sheets in route orderStation-separated, per driver, per site — so what's loaded matches what's due.
Farmhand routing — an optimized route map, the week's zones with stop counts and re-optimize controls, a harvest report with packing labels and sign-out sheets, and a delivery confirmation photo
You text

Cold has to land first on the north route today.

04 — MARKETING

A full freezer is a marketing problem.

Every pound has to move before the next animal comes back, and the fastest way to move it is a message to people who already buy from you.

  • Email and SMS to your own listSegmented by what they buy and when they last ordered, sent from your farm's name.
  • Flash salesPost a surplus cut at a price for a window, push it to the people most likely to take it, and watch it clear.
  • A website that sellsYour site, your shop and your subscriptions on one system, so a visitor can become a member without leaving.
  • Campaigns built around the seasonA preorder push before a processing date, a clear-out when the freezer is heavy, a renewal ask before the year turns.
EmailSMSFlash salesWebsitePreorder pushesRenewals
Milkmaid's Market beef box tiers on Farmhand — a 27 lb bulk box, an 18 lb family box and a 10 lb grillers box, with bone broth bones running as a sale
You text

We're heavy on pork chops. Run a flash sale tonight — 20% off, members and shop.

05 — SUPPORT & BILLING

Your members have questions. They don't have to be yours.

Pickup times, a hold for a week away, a card that expired, where the truck is. Real people on our team answer all of it, seven days a week, in your farm's voice — and every thread stays visible to you.

  • Real people, seven days a weekChat, email and SMS for your members and for you, including the conversations we handle without you.
  • Delivery confirmations and pickup remindersSent automatically, so a cooler doesn't sit on a porch overnight.
  • Holds and skips members handle themselvesA week away or a full freezer stops being a phone call to you.
  • Subscription billing that runs itselfWeekly, biweekly or monthly, charged on schedule, with receipts members can find later.
  • Failed cards retry on their ownDeclines retry automatically and the member gets a branded notice with a link to fix it.
A member hold applied on a Farmhand account, pausing deliveries for the dates they are away
Two-way texting on Farmhand — a member asks for her card to be run again and gets confirmation the retry went through, alongside a turkey pre-order message sent to 412 members
You text

Put the Hendersons on hold through the end of the month — they're out of town.

From the people on the other end

Members don't see the platform. They see you.

Ordering that's a little bit fun, add-ons they can tack on themselves, and a photo showing the cooler was packed. Three members, in their own words.

“Wow, what a fun way to order! I'll take 10 lbs, please!”

Jay E.Meat box member Flash sale

“Loving the [Farmhand] platform–it is so much easier to add on extras!”

Megan F.Protein box subscriber Add-ons

“Thanks for the delivery confirmation and photo! Happy to see it's safe in the cooler.”

Joyce D.Monthly retail customer Delivery confirmation

Your turn

What would you text your Farmhand?

Bring the thing you've been putting off — the wholesale account you keep meaning to set up, the freezer you're carrying into spring, the quarter-share invoices you still build by hand. Fifteen minutes with Ari, our founder and a farmer. He'll tell you straight whether we're the partner you need.

200+ farms and ranches on Farmhand · 1M+ local farm orders a year · No contracts, no setup fees