For farmers market vendors
Turn your market stand into a CSA
Your regulars already come back every week. A follo QR code on the table lets them sign up for your harvest, and tells them the moment their share is ready to pick up.
How it works for you
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Create a Business follo for your farm
Name it for the share, like “Hillside Farm weekly shares.”
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Put the code on your table
A card by the scale, a corner of the chalkboard, a sticker on every bag that leaves the stand.
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Tell members when shares are ready
At the stand, at the farm gate or at a drop point in town. One update reaches every member at once.
A CSA without the paperwork
A CSA, community supported agriculture, is a standing promise: people commit to your harvest, and you tell them when it’s ready. The hard part has always been the telling. A spreadsheet of phone numbers, a group text that turns into a chat, a newsletter tool you never wanted to learn.
With follo the sign-up is a scan at your stand, and the telling is one update. Members see it in follo, and get it by email on paid plans. You never keep a list.
Example messages
Hillside Farm: shares are ready
This week’s boxes are packed: tomatoes, sweet corn and basil. Pick up at the stand until noon.
Hillside Farm: pickup moved
Rain closes Saturday’s market. Collect your share at the farm gate, 9 to 1.
Hillside Farm: fall shares open
Squash, apples and greens through November. Sign up at the stand this weekend.
Where the QR code goes
On a card at the front of the table, where people wait to pay. On the chalkboard next to this week’s prices. Printed on the boxes and bags that shares go home in, so a member’s neighbor can follow too.
Put the link in your farm’s social bio so people can sign up between market days.
Why one-way fits
Pickup news is the same for every member: what’s in the box, where to get it and until when. A one-way update says it once, and nobody has to scroll a reply thread to find the pickup time.
What follo is
follo is a one-way notification service that lets people follow a person, business, product, event, group, property, waitlist, or other subject through a link or QR code and receive updates from its owner.
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Questions
Does follo take payment for shares?
No. Collect for shares the way you do now: cash at the stand, a card reader, or your farm’s website. follo sends the updates.
Can I tell only the people who bought a share?
Everyone who follows hears every update. To keep pickup news to members, make a follo just for shares and hand its code to members when they pay.
Does a farm follo expire?
No. A Business follo has no price, so it stays active until you unpublish it.
Do members need an app?
No. They scan the code, enter an email address, and they’re following. No password and nothing to install.