What is Farmers Underground Directory?
food - /fu:d/ n.
A Private Membership Association (PMA) serving Canada and the U.S., with a purpose to unite members through private association, who share a common goal: preserve a clean, healthy, affordable, food and water supply. Paid members gain access to a secure online marketplace and directory of farmers, hobbyests, distributors, associations, and farmstead suppliers, for the purposes to 'associate freely' as recognized by US and Canadian law, in activities to trade, barter, consume,, distribute, serve, prepare, store, cultivate, and market food and water, potentially allowing members to conduct activities free from certain public health, licensing, or regulatory requirements, because they are doing so in 'private'. ...really. (You may want to read that again)
fud /fʌd/ n. (kind of ironic)
Acronym, slang, often capitalized as FUD and stands for Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt: a strategic tactic or physcologial operation (psy-opp) prevalent in sales, government, technology or business, used to manipulate or influence opinion or behavior to impact trust and decision-making for negetive gains.
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Online Directory
fu:d is a secure, web-based marketplace, not a mobile app (apps can spy) - where members can buy, sell, and network for food security.
Sellers:
fu:d's farmer/seller members—can expand to; bakers, backyard egg producers, food banks, jobs, microgreens, and more. Sellers create a profile/storefront and list their products and services for sale.Shoppers:
fu:d's shopping members can search over 100,000 categories (sponsored by Algolia!) in our directory of sellers, and returns the items searched for, in map or list view, with prices, by distance to a zipcode. Shoppers select the items they want and a message is sent to the seller, where payment and delivery, pick up, or meet up at a farmer's market, are arranged privately. Delivered and shippable items are also searchable.
Private vs Public
fu:d provides its members with a platform to "speak easy" and conduct business with like-minded individuals in ways that traditional entities—such as NGOs, corporations, sole proprietorships, limited companies, and non-profits—cannot. Members are free to associate exclusively with other members, to acheive the goal outlined in the 'articles of assocation' ie: preserving food security and fostering discussions to address and resolve FUD issues. Members can associate in the fu:d marketplace, by phone, by email, in gatherings or video gatherings, for the purpose of food and water security and under it's own rules and regulations, when associated directly to other fu;d members, can be out side public licensing, and regulations.
Support
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Buy a T-shirt
Buy a scarecrow lawn tshirt
Champion a state or province
Host a call
Can you apply formore info? Yes.
Can you pay to be a member if your invitation is accepted?
Not yet. Here's our issue.
So, which came first the chicken or the egg? lol. In our case the marketplace or the PMA? We have the marketplace shopping app ready to launch May 16 2025, but we need to crowsource to create the PMA, first.
