How MeetFarms Works
A new social media platform for agriculture
MeetFarms connects the people who grow food with the people who eat it. Consumers discover farms and products, read farm updates, and connect directly with producers. Farms share their story, offerings, and updates, and build relationships with their community — all in one place. Trust and transparency are central: clear producer identity, transparent sourcing, and direct connection.
For consumers
Meet the farms behind your food
Discover farms and local products, read their updates, and connect directly with the people who grow and make your food.
Discover farms
Browse and search farms by location, business type, and sales channel. Each farm profile shows who the farm is, what they grow or make, and where they are.
Find farms →Explore products
See the products farms actually sell — with categories, availability, sales channels, and order methods. Clear product and source details.
Explore products →Read farm updates
Follow farms and see their posts — crop updates, availability, photos, and farm stories — in your personal feed.
See the feed →Connect directly
Connect straight to the people who grow and make your food. No middlemen between you and the producer.
Meet farms →For farms
Share your story and build relationships
Farms share who they are, what they grow, and what they have available — and build a following of customers who want local food.
A farm profile
Create a professional farm profile — photos, location, story, and what you grow. Your producer identity is clear.
List your farm →Publish updates
Share farm updates, crop updates, product availability, photos, and farm stories straight to your followers.
For farmers →Build followers
Let customers and other users follow your farm and see your future updates in their personal feed.
For farmers →Show products
Display the products your farm actually sells — with categories, availability, sales channels, and order methods.
For farmers →Planned for a future release
These tools are being prepared and are not live yet.
MeetFarms is also exploring voluntary, seller-funded 10% discounts for shoppers purchasing from participating .farms businesses after launch. Availability and terms would depend on each seller — sellers, not DOTFRM, fund any discount, and participation is never required.
🛡️ .farms digital identities
Distinct from ordinary websites
A .farms identity is an optional agricultural digital identity that signals a real, working farm. It is distinct from an ordinary HTTPS website and is not required to use MeetFarms. Today, .farms identities are part of a limited pilot, and access to a raw .farms address may require one-time browser or device setup — they do not always open in ordinary unconfigured browsers.
Every farm also has a regular MeetFarms profile you can visit directly, so you can always reach the farm whether or not a .farms identity is configured.
MAHA · My Agricultural Health Assistant
A separate meal-planning application
MAHA — My Agricultural Health Assistant — is a separate application with an available early version at dotmaha.com. Explore AI-assisted meal ideas and connections to participating farms in MAHA’s early version. MAHA is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or part of any government agency or government initiative, and offers general nutrition information only — not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
🎁 Free farm website offer
Free starter farm website for the first 20 eligible survey participants
One starter site per eligible business, with 12 months free hosting, basic SEO, and a requested .farms name.
This free starter website offer becomes available only when MeetFarms goes live. The survey is open now — respondents may record a preferred .farms name today — but no site or name is awarded, registered, or hosted before launch. After launch, DOTFRM (Brian) will review completed eligible responses in submission order and contact the first 20 qualifying businesses, subject to requested name availability.
DOTFRM (Brian) is the only seller of these websites. The first 20 eligible farms and local food businesses — including processors, butchers, canners, and farm markets — located in Clinton, Eaton, Ingham, or Ionia counties that complete the full Michigan Agricultural Needs Survey may receive one starter site each with 12 months of free hosting beginning when each site goes live, basic SEO setup, and a requested .farms name. The starter site is a mobile-friendly one-page website on a platform-provided ordinary HTTPS URL. Each eligible participant receives one site to use — with no right to resell, transfer, or market sites. Allocation is first come, first served by completed eligible survey submission timestamp, subject to name availability and manual eligibility verification — no automatic award, no guaranteed selection, and no live remaining-spots counter.
Requested .farms names need at least 11 characters before .farms; MeetFarms never guarantees automatic registration or a specific requested name, and a .farms name may require compatible resolution to open. Every hosted site also has an ordinary HTTPS link that works in any browser. This pilot offer is separate from a paid .farms domain and website, and MeetFarms never guarantees domain registration. Custom domains, ecommerce, ongoing SEO, and ads are excluded; no ranking guarantees; no automatic paid renewal.
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Meet the farms behind your food.
Discover farms, follow their updates, and connect directly with the people who grow your food — starting in Michigan.