Farmsy App: Small Farm Market & Community
We want to build a marketplace for small farmers to buy-sell-trade their animals and farm goods. Facebook has been shutting down groups that buy-sell-trade farm animals, which makes it hard for small farmers to connect and build up their farms. We hope to change that with this community app.
Here are the features we will be building into our App and/or Website:
- Allow breeders/farmer to connect to sell/swap animals, and other farm-related items/services.
- Foster a community of breeders/farmers/homesteaders/farmsteaders through topic and chat threads or groups, aiding in teaching, learning, and inspiring.
- Promote the farmer! Provide a stable (no pun intended!), wholistic social platform that will allow the legal sale of livestock, as Facebook and even PayPal appear to be shutting down farmpages for these reasons.
- Allow location selling/buying radius options that suits the farm's individual needs.
- Profile pages/username for Farms/breeders/homesteaders that show their unique personality.
- Finding options that allow your farm and others to be discoverable on the app for networking purposes.
- Easy-to-search categories, e.g. Registered livestock>pigs>Kunekune or Registered livestock>sheep>Katahdin
Please let us know what additional features you would like to see!
App Testing: All our donors will be invited to help us beta-test the app/website and user interface.
Who Are We?
We have a homestead in Louisiana called Raintree Farms. Scott is an attorney, author, and entrepreneur with experience in web development, and Ashton is the brains of the operation.
Please let us know what other questions we can answer for you.
Many, many thanks for your help!
Scott & Ashton Smith
