Welcome to the Online Version of the Certified Arkansas Farmers’ Market.
We are a “source verified” market, where all of our participants have been inspected to verify that they are the source of the product they are selling. We only deal directly with the source farms, and nothing outside of Arkansas can be sold in our online or outdoor farmer’s markets. For a copy of our CAFM Bylaws(in PDF), anyone can download them at: www.arkansasfood.net/farmers.php

The CAFM Online Farmers’ Market Volunteers are taking a much needed break. Our online market will re-open on September 12, 2010. Our website will be upgraded during this time and we appreciate your patience. Our outdoor markets will continue to operate normal business hours. Visit our website at www.arkansasfood.net for a certified market near you.

Click on “The Market” on the menu bar above to view offerings and place an order.

Our farmers owned and operated market does not charge a membership fee to its members and is the only market to offer the use of credit, debit and EBT for payment in addition to cash or check.

Planned Pickup Dates and Location:
The next scheduled pick-up is Saturday, September 18, 2010.

The market will be closed August 8, 2010. and will not re-open until Sunday, September 12, 2010 at 5pm.

Customers new to the CAFM Online Farmer’s Market?
Anyone can shop our site, and membership is FREE for all. A surcharge of 5 percent(5%) is added to each order to cover e-commerce fees and online marketing expenses. No taxes are charged when dealing directly with the farm on our site or at our outdoor farmers markets. THANK YOU for shopping Local at CAFM ONLINE! It is the responsibility of each grower who sells online or outdoor to collect, if any, required sales tax.

To register as a new customer, click on the brown “door” icon on the menu bar above. After the “sign in” page opens, select “I want to create an account” and fill in the requested information. You will receive a confirming e-mail after you register. You will also automatically receive at the address you provide, the e-mailed announcements each time the CAFM online market is open.

CONTACT INFO: certifiedarkansas@yahoo.com (certifiedarkansas is the official e-mail address for CAFM (North Little Rock); The Online Market Administrator may be contacted at beefalowoman@aristotle.net. Thank you for your consideration.

If you are producer/farmer wanting to sell in this market, call 501.231.0094 or e-mail Jody Hardin at the email address above or email Barbara Armstrong, Secretary CAFM at beefalowoman@aristotle.net (501-288-2109)

Membership in CAFM, Inc.
Members of our two outdoor markets, North Little Rock Argenta District and Searcy, are the only vendors allowed to use our cafm.locallygrown.net site, since a pre-inspection is required. If you want to sell your farm products on this site, you must join CAFM, Inc. (a non-profit), please contact the market manager. A simple application and CAFM Rules/Bylaws are available at: www.arkansasfood.net/page3.php It is that easy, and you will be glad you joined!

Member farmers enjoy the benefits of attending either or both the Argenta CAFM (Sat.) or the Searcy (Wednesday & Saturday) Farmer’s Markets throughout each year, and can freely sell on this online farmers market, with one simple on-site inspection. We would also help with necessary training to begin selling online and at the outdoor markets. With these two marketing tools, we are one of the few online markets in Arkansas operated by experienced farmers utilizing existing outdoor farmers’ markets as a place to do our order pickups (which allows consumers the added benefit of seeing other products you have for sale, among other benefits for the consumer). Annual farmer membership in 2010 is $50. This is a huge value for many small farmer, since we offer you three markets, including the All Arkansas Basket A Month CSA program that buys over $100k each year for the last three years in central Arkansas.