About Us.

Chemical allergies affect more than 115 million people in the United States today.

That's 115 million people and growing, doubling roughly every 10 years.  Thats 1 in 3 American children and an estimated 1 in 3 American adults with a allergy due to food, water, or air consumption.  Approximately 25% will have a near-fatal tumor or anaphylactic reaction.  There is a visit to the emergency room due to food allergy-induced anaphylactic reaction every two minutes.  And Cancer rates in this country are the highest in the world.

This is the problem that impacts everyone: family, friends, neighbors, teachers, students, young children, teens, etc.  And why everyone in 2018 is fighting for clean food, transparency in ingredients, and growing our own food supply.

The Farm2Me Company maintains strict food chemical screening and allergen protocols for every product we promote.

On every package and on every product page on our web site, you will find detailed information on:

• What your products contain

• Where farm ingredients originate

• What our products may contain based on any potential for cross-contamination

• The Type of facility where the product is made

We follow 16 proprietary measures to ensure our products are safe and of the highest quality.  We rigorously screen, audit and continuously monitor our partners to maintain a high-quality, chemical free supply chain.

Extensive technical information is required on every raw material and ingredient used in our products. We audit and then validate the manufacturing and production facilities of our products and ingredients by location.  Our farms are dedicated fertilizer-free and chemical-pesticide free, and all the ingredients we purchase are also from fertilizer-free, chemical-pesticide free, and preservative-free facilities.

All products are transparently marked if their manufacturing plants are dedicated peanut-free and tree-nut-free, and all the ingredients we purchase are also labeled if they are also from peanut-free and tree-nut-free facilities.  Each and every food production lot is tested for peanut, almond, hazelnut, walnut, cashew, pistachio, macadamia, Brazil, coconut and pecan.  Other labeled food allergens like milk, egg, wheat, soy, shellfish and fish are tracked and isolated in our marketplaces. These allergens are clearly noted on packaging if they are used in our products or processed in the facilities.

Our policies have been validated by the leading independent food labeling organizations in the United States and Internationally.

We have and will continue to support and develop products that help people avoid chemical allergens in their foods, including preservatives, chemicals, chemical-fertilizers, chemical-pesticides, chemically altered, DNA-Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs), Genetically Engineered (GE), peanuts, tree nuts, milk, eggs, wheat, soy, shellfish and fish are labelled. Whatever food allergens we take on, rest assured you can count on our protocols to ensure safety.  We will publish these protocols in our Frequently Asked Questions.

Our products, farms, and fishermen will always be screened and clearly labeled, so whoever is doing the shopping can make informed choices - for the sake of your own family, that of a neighbor or friend, or simply to create a more inclusive community for all.

Our products are always clean!

Our Leadership.

Garry Michael

FARM2ME CO-FOUNDER

Garry is a former Professor of both Medicine and Immunological Sciences. Garry's background in medicine includes serving as Director at Bellevue Hospital of Pediatric Emergency Medicine for both New York University Hospital and Bellevue Hospital in Disaster Preparedness and Response: Mass Casualty Incidences for Vulnerable Populations.  Garry lives in New York.  

Jeevan Katwaru

FARM2ME CO-FOUNDER, SEO

Keevan is a SEO and A/B testing manager. Jeevan's background in strategic targeting, SEO roadmaps, and keyword search at Zagat (acquired by Google) and Pay per click, Bing, and Yahoo: This and more make him an integral marketing professional for the farm to table industry.  Jeevan lives in New York.  

Silvia Lupuianu

FARM2ME CO-FOUNDER, Illustrator Branding

Silvia feels a little cliché to say this, but she likes to think outside the box, paint outside the lines, and is the genius behind branding for many of Farm2Me's clients. She is a designer, developer, and illustrator.  Silvia lives in Sweden.  

Jieun Lee

FARM2ME CO-FOUNDER, Graphic Design

Jieun is a Visual Graphic Designer with a natural creative talent full of fresh ideas and an eye of branding. Jieun was educated at The Cooper Union and School of Visual Arts. She comes to us from Reuters and Thomson Reuters. Jieun lives in New York.  

Jordan Cooperman

FARM2ME CO-FOUNDER, Software Engineer

Jordan's unique design process focuses on simple and elegant user experience, which he construct as an interactive website developer. Jordan designed our first fully functional prototype, and quickly brought it to life. Jorden made it easy for us to spot problem areas in the product before moving into visual design or development.  Jordan lives in New York.  

Danielle Nierenberg

ADVISOR

Danielle is President of Food Tank and an expert on sustainable agriculture and food issues. She has written extensively on gender and population, the spread of factory farming in the developing world and innovations in sustainable agriculture.

Backstory.

"I am so honored to have been a change agent behind that landmark move and have never looked back! I got hooked on the movement behind local, seasonal, chemical-free and allergen-free transparent food makers."

2011

Before the "local food movement" existed we were just researchers, interested in preventing disease, concentrating on agriculture as a disease-prevention model in contrast to the pharmaceutical’s disease-response model.  In our research, we stumbled on two of hundreds of very interesting articles: The Billionaire Who Is Planning His 125th Birthday and Tomatoland. It was until we read these articles, one about Dole Pineapple’s Ex-CEO using chemical-free food to prevent disease, and an article about Chemical-Sprayed Vine-Grown Tomatoes  which travel green and sprayed with Ether to bloom red - that we realized the lack of transparency in our country's  Industrial Food System. We wrote a model based on over 10,000 pages of research to recreate a local food distribution system to highlight Chemical-Free and Allergen-Free food.  We started with 4 cities in March of 2011:  San Francisco, Austin, Seattle and New York.  

Rewind back to 2011, when retailer Supermarkets said no to local produce and introduced home delivery for the first time in the United States?  We pioneered the Local Food Distribution e-Commerce model that introduced customers to truly fresh seasonal chemical-free produce and products made from chemical-free farms, in chemical-free facilities, leveraging 'breakthrough research' that created local distribution models from the 1930s and local farmers markets around the country. This major success led to growth in this country in local food e-Commerce marketplaces; a rethinking at Whole Foods to carry locally-made products in all their stores; and inspiring Big Food Grocery & Supermarket Chains, nationwide, to rethink their multi-national industrial labeling strategies.

- Garry, Co-Founder

2012 

Hurricane Sandy

In 2012, while in New York City, Farm2me unexpectedly stepped up in response to Hurricane Sandy, and mobilized our network of 300 local food makers and farms in the tristate area to donate rescued food to over 100 disaster relief sites in NY and NJ.  The project allowed us to partner with Team Rubicon and United Peace Relief, a national farm for veterans program.  We partnered to write tax deductible receipts to local food makers and farms in exchange for their food donations - which increased their profit, reduced their 30-50% waste, and supported their growth. It also inspired Trader Joe's CEO to create his Food Waste initiative in 2013.

The "Farm2me Sandy Relief"  project, as it was called, fed over 300,000 meals in 4 months to 100 disaster relief sites in New York City and New Jersey.  Our mission today continues to support local food makers + farms in this capacity by reducing food waste and partnering our network with nonprofit organizations all over the world, to fight food hunger, gleaning, food rescue, support food banks, food relief, and disaster response where needed.  This included the Moore Tornado  and Hawaii Hurricane relief efforts. Since 2011, our team has expanded from researching a database and running a non-profit mission - to develop an online marketplace for thousands of makers and farms.  The online Farm2me marketplace went live in April 2014.  Since deciding to make our network public, we've launched both a wholesale and a retail marketplace.

2012

We are very proud to be a B Corporation, incorporated in the state of NY in 2012. We are legally bound to the world community and to our shareholders to do general social and environmental good, always.

2014

To help support our local food makers and farms, we launched our Online Magazine and our Instagram & Twitter in 2014. It’s an online magazine and social community dedicated to supporting local food makers and farms -- their product launches, their events, announcements, and to be a resource to build a larger local food community. The goal is to highlight, support, and sustain the local food system, worldwide, by leveraging our cumulative size, work cooperatively, and share our resources to grow! As of 2015, Farm2me is made up of 8,000 local food makers and farms with 30,000+ local food advocates, writers, editors, buyers, advocates, bakers and chefs making up our army of followers.

2016

In 2016, we launched a Wholesale Marketplace for Retailers and a Wholesale Club for Families in 120 cities and 40 US states.

Our team @ Farm2Me has worked with retail chains, agricultural organizations, Farmer’s Markets, food rescue organizations, the Federal government, and small and large businesses to help their brands grow, while making sustainable choices. Making this decision an easy one, to help them screen and source Chemical-Free and Allergen-Free products with the click of a button.

Our goal is to continue to be an integral part of the developing local food distribution system, to eliminate the industrial food system, and to the acceleration of local food makers and farms, worldwide.

2018

In 2018, we will extend our marketplaces to Canada, South and Central America, Europe and Australia. Our products are no longer available on AmazonFresh, as a boycott of their purchase and adulteration of Whole Foods Marketplaces.