Farm2Chef · For Ranchers

You raise it. Your neighbors pool up to buy it.

The Community Protein Pool groups households by ZIP code until a pool reaches 15–20 families — enough demand for a rancher to sell in bulk. When a pool forms in your service area, we bring you the numbers. You sell directly to the households — you are the seller, at your price, on your terms. Farm2Chef coordinates the pool: the matching, the cut preferences, the scheduling, the communication.

Nothing is committed until you confirm it. You can pass on any pool, for any reason — and pools form when households join, so we can't promise a pool in your area or a date. This form is how you get in line to be asked.

Tell us about your ranch

The form below — what you raise, how you sell it, your processor, your capacity. Ten minutes, once.

We review and talk

A person reads every submission. If there's a fit, we talk through your operation before anything is listed or promised.

A pool forms — you decide

When a pool in your service area reaches its threshold, we bring you the size, the timing, and the pricing basis you gave us. You confirm, adjust, or pass.

Agreement, then your first pool

Before the first pool runs, the commercial terms are set in a private rancher agreement between you and us. Then you sell direct to the households in the pool.

Your ranch

Ranch legal name *

Ranch / display name *

Contact person *

Phone *

Email *

City *

County

ZIP *

Service radius (miles)

Delivery / pickup area

Pools launch in Harris County first — if you're beyond it, tell us anyway; your area joins the list as pools expand.

What you raise

For each product: check it if you offer it, tell us how you sell it — inspected retail cuts, or animal shares (whole / half / quarter). The sales model matters: it decides what can be sold, to whom, and how it's labeled, so we ask it plainly for every product.

Beef Beef — sales model

Beef — notes

Pork Pork — sales model

Pork — notes

Chicken Chicken — sales model

Chicken — notes

Other Other — what is it?

Other — sales model Other — notes

Processing

Processor name

Processor location

Processor inspection status

This decides which sales models are open to you — inspected product can be sold by the cut; custom-exempt processing is for the animal's owner. If you're not sure, choose "Not set up yet" and we'll talk it through.

Capacity & timing

Capacity per cycle

Cycles per year

Typical lead time

Your pricing

Pricing basis

Processing fees

Your price range

Your prices are yours. Households see one simple all-in price for their share — the range here is for our matching conversation with you, not a public listing.

Fulfillment

On-ranch pickup available

I can deliver to a pool pickup point

Cold storage on the ranch

Refrigerated transport

Fulfillment notes

Business readiness

Business license

Liability insurance

Food-safety documentation

These answers feed the same five readiness gates we use across Farm2Chef — food safety, volume, traceability, cold chain, and business documentation. "In progress" is an honest answer, not a disqualifier; it tells us where support helps.

Anything else

Notes for us

If my ranch is approved, I agree to be listed in the Farm2Chef directory. My ranch is never shown publicly without this consent, and I can withdraw it. *

I understand the commercial terms of participating are set in the private rancher agreement, signed before my first pool runs. Submitting this form creates no obligation on either side. *

Company fax

What we never ask for here: no tax ID, no Social Security number, no bank details on this form — ever. Those belong to the private rancher agreement and secure payment setup later, handled directly with you. We never sell or share your information; your answers go to our coordination team and nowhere else.

One Kitchen. One Ecosystem.

Where ranchers fit

The Pool is one door. The same kitchen runs classes, dinners, and a directory that puts your ranch in front of the people already looking for it:

The Protein Pool

How households pool by ZIP, what a pool looks like when it forms, and the survey families take to join.

See the Pool

Farm directory

1,403 farms, searchable by ZIP — the public listing your consent above controls. Nothing shows without a rancher's or farmer's yes.

Search the directory

Readiness, five gates

The self-assessment behind this form's readiness questions — a snapshot and a prioritized action list, yours to keep.

Take the assessment

Demo board

Farmers book chefs for demos and farm events — another way a ranch becomes a destination, not just a supplier.

See the demo board