The farmers2freezers.com directory is designed to complement your current online presence, promote more engagement with your social media channels, and enhancing your organic search. Our state listings display short producer snippets in rotating random order for fast searching and filtering by species, practices and locations to help consumers find compatible local producers. If you do not have an online presence, our directory can be an easy starting point.
Our directory is new, so we have created a few sample listings to show how state listings will be displayed, filtered and linked to the full listing pages.
Sample StateBe one of the first to subscribe and receive your first year in our directory for just $4.00. This is a limited time offer to get the directory started and to reward the visionary first-movers wanting to market direct to consumers. Our initial pricing is set for just $24 for the first year of your listing. Our sign up process entails creating a secure account and reserving your listing page in our Producer Portal with instructions below. The producer portal is your secure area to create, update, and maintain your directory listing. Complete your registration now and we will provide you a with a discount code to enter when making payment through the Billing & Subscription section of your portal. We are happy to provide help and support if needed after you create your producer account.
Sign up now and start creating your listing today with the link below.
Register NowProducer Portal: Each producer creates their own secure producer account which is where you will create and maintain your producer page listing. A unique email & password is required for each producer account. The registration process will verify your email to ensure your account password can be safely reset. You are also allowed to create your unique page slug for your business listing page like farmers2freezers.com/producers/my-store-name.
Producer Portal Dashboard: The producer portal is where you will create, refine, and update the content sections for your listing. Your Account Settings contact, phone and email can be different from your listings contact name, phone and email that are published for your listing. Subscriptions and payments are handled by Stripe and tracked in the portal.
Business Info: The business info tab is pre-filled with some basic profile information from your registration, but this information can be updated for the your public listing. Our directory is designed to help consumers find local farmers. The City / County Area helps you to create a distanced based text searchable list of local communities in your area. The Google Maps link on your listing page is based on the physical address of your business and will be shown if your select the Show address in Google Maps view checkbox. The map coordinates will be utilized in future map based searching on our site and also helps with standard search engine results. Map coordinates can be found by dropping a pin (press & hold) on mobile devices or a left-click on a desktop to display the latitude and longitude of a location on Google Maps.
Web & Socials: Allow consumers to directly link to your website or any of your social media pages. Leave blank if you do not use any of the services and it will not be displayed. The use of social media content can add more links to your page or helps spread your reach more organically. Good content can give consumers more insight and trust in your operation.
Page Content: Your business name along with the page title, page description, and your page tagline should summarize what you offer with descriptive relevant keywords and are structured to optimize your page for online search engines. The promotional content area offers the formatting options to help tell your story, promote your offerings, and describe how you prefer to conduct your business.
Species & Certifications: The species is a multi-select field and is the most basic search for most consumers to find what they are looking for. The third party certifications can provide more confidence for consumers interested in certain practices and we will want to confirm any certifications. We are interested in building our list of certifications, so if you have third party certifications that should be added, please call or email.
Logo & Media: Your listing page can include your business logo which can be uploaded or referenced by an image link. The logo's width display size our site is typically between 160 - 320 pixels and should be optimized for the web. The map coordinates will be utilized in future map based searching and also help with search engine results.
Photo Gallery: Coming soon ... you will be able to upload a limited set of photos images to your listing page to create a tab based image gallery. Images should be web optimized, which means a resolution of between 72 ppi (Pixels Per Inch) and maximum width dimension of 960 pixels. Photos are best displayed in a compressed .jpg or .webp format and should be under 150KB in size for fast loading. Each image should also include a short text based description to enable screen readers and provide better search context. We are happy to receive any images by email and include them in your listing as we work to implement this feature through the portal.
Embed Content & Links: Coming soon ... we are interesting in allowing for additional promotional options to offer other online services through code embeds or third party URL links. Some payment services like Stripe, PayPal, Square, & Venmo offer payment links to facilitate online ordering, deposits or customer payments. There may be other services which allow for simple embed links for commerce that can be added also. We are happy to work with you to implement your solutions if they are compatible as we work to implement these features through the portal.
State Snippets: Our page formatted content includes a page title, page description, and page tagline to follow good search engine optimization for your listing page and are also used to display a snippet of your listing within the state listings for easy reading, searching and filtering for consumers. We recommend concise descriptions with relevant keywords for these three important fields.
Producer Page Listing: Your full page listing is your chance to tell your unique story, explain what you offer and let consumers know how best to contact and do business with you. Your page can be customized with your logo, farm address, map link, contact information, links to all relevant web and social media content, and display icons for any third party certifications. Each listing page also has a dedicated contact form link that will automatically forward any submissions to the email address we have on file with your listing.
Yearly Subscription: The standard plan is a simple low yearly subscription to list and promote your business 24/7/365 for consumers looking to purchase meat or animal shares directly from the producer. You create and update your own listing and let us work to create the best directory for consumers to find local farmers. We will be promoting our directory and your business online and through all the major social media outlets to get more consumers and more producers to our directory.
Stripe Payment Forms: We can provide consulting to help create some basic online ordering and payment forms that can be integrated into your listing page or with your own website or social media.
Our Yearly Subscription pricing is simply an annual subscription to host your listing in our directory. The current subscription price is pegged at $84.00 per year. We plan on offering various discount promotions as we launch in end of 2026. Subscription payments can be made through our stripe account after registration in the producer portal. The standard plan consists of what content you create through our producer portal. If you need to make changes or update information for your listing, this can also be done through the producer portal. Your listing subscription will automatically renew yearly until cancelled. Any promotions or special offers are limited to the first years subscription.
