About CSAware
25 years with family farms, 15 refining CSAware.
LocalHarvest has been connecting people with family farms since 1999. CSAware is the platform that grew out of two decades of helping CSAs thrive.
Our Story
LocalHarvest has been helping family farmers build strong businesses since we launched our national directory in 2000. We’ve become a trusted marketing partner for more than 29,000 farms and farmers markets. And it works: over 6 million people a year come to LocalHarvest to find out where to get local food in their communities.
Our mission is to connect people looking for good food with the farmers who produce it. We provide online tools that help small farmers thrive. In 2009, seeing that many CSAs were growing but still buried in administrative work, we began building a set of administrative and e-commerce tools for CSAs and food hubs. CSAware was born in 2010.
Then we integrated CSAware with the LocalHarvest directory to give CSAware users top billing — potential members searching for local food on LocalHarvest can click directly to your online store to sign up. Those 6 million people who use LocalHarvest? A few of them will find their way to your business.
More than 29,000 farms and farmers markets have listed with LocalHarvest, and millions of people use it to find local food.
Our Commitment
LocalHarvest and CSAware are run by a team of people who believe that family farms are cornerstones of our country’s past, present, and future. We do all we can to support family farmers and help their businesses grow.
We believe family farms should not have to surrender their customer relationships, data, or identity to sell food online. Our job is to provide the infrastructure that helps family farms compete without giving up control.
With CSAware, we make the administrative end of running a CSA smooth and straightforward. That leaves you more time to focus on growing great food, building your soil, and expanding your business.
We respect your way of doing things and your time. That’s why we’ve made CSAware as flexible as possible, and that’s why we’re always just a phone call away.
Run into a snag? Call us. We’re here to help.
Decide to make a mid-stream change? Call us. We’ll build a bridge.
All is well? Excellent. We’re still over here keeping an eye on things.