Source types
- Farm-submitted data: listing forms, claim requests, updates, and direct messages from farm owners or operators.
- Farm-owned pages: farm websites, online stores, pickup pages, CSA signup pages, social profiles, and public contact pages.
- Public directories: agriculture directories, local food directories, farmers market lists, product-specific directories, and public datasets.
- Official resources: state agriculture departments, legal-status pages, inspection or licensing pages, and other public government resources when relevant.
- Manual review: human checks, deduplication, source cleanup, and correction review.
What source-backed means
A source-backed fact has a visible or recorded reason to believe it is true, such as a farm-owned page, a farm submission, a public directory row, or a reviewed source URL. It does not mean Farm-to-Door certifies the farm, product, production method, legal status, safety, or current availability.
What gets filtered
The directory should avoid treating obvious grocery stores, warehouses, distributors, email-address rows, duplicate records, stale records, or non-farm source rows as indexable farm profiles. Those records can still be useful for cleanup queues, but they should not be promoted as search landing pages.
Send a better source
If a page is missing a source, using an old source, or linking to the wrong source, send the page URL and the better source URL to omar@farm-to-door.com.