Local Raised™Introducing Local Raised
There’s a kind of grocery shopper who reads every label and still doesn’t quite believe any of them. What they actually want isn’t a better label — it’s a farm they know, raising food they can point to. Most of them will never homestead. We’re building Local Raised so they don’t have to.
Local Raised turns a nearby farm into your farm. You reserve real things, and a local farmer raises them for you:
- Freezer shares — reserve a quarter or half of a live animal before processing. After the season, you pick up a freezer full of meat, cut and wrapped by a local processor.
- Adopted harvests — your own apple tree, beehive, or maple taps, tended by the farmer all season. The harvest is yours.
- Harvest pledges — commit early to a share of a crop, like a bushel of tomatoes or a fall storage box, so the farmer plants with certainty.
You get updates through the season — the field it stands in, the weather it survived — and when it’s time, you pick up food you watched grow.
For the farms
Farmers get the other half of the deal: the season sells before it starts. Committed local buyers, deposits up front, whole animals spoken for before processing, and no farmers-market weekends. You farm; we handle the market.
Where we are
We’re pre-launch, working with founding farms in New York’s Capital District — the Albany, Troy, Schenectady, and Saratoga area — with more regions to follow.
- Families: join the waitlist and we’ll let you know when farms near you open their seasons.
- Farmers: see Local Raised for farmers or email waitlist@localraised.com.
Your food, raised for you, nearby. 🌱