My primary goal in creating this site was to fill a need that I myself have. How could I find a place near me where I can buy pasture-raised chicken meat? Also, sometimes I want to eat something that isn’t carried in a typical grocery store. For example, goat meat. I figured, I’m probably not the only one with these questions! So I designed a website with functionality that lets you search for a particular type of meat and find local farms that sell it. Why New Hampshire specifically? Because I live (and eat) here! My other primary goal was to promote regenerative agriculture, inspired by the work of the amazing Joel Salatin at Polyface Farms. Regenerative ag produces more nutritious meat with far more humane animal husbandry practices than factory-farmed meat. It also actually improves the health and vitality of the soil on which the animals are raised. It’s heartwarming to discover that almost ALL of the farms in New Hampshire are some variation of organic, regenerative, and/or sustainable. There are several other websites that profile New Hampshire farms. But when looking through them, I noticed two things. One was that several of them are government-funded. I favor free market solutions, since you never know what angle or bias the government might be injecting into its content. The other is that some of those sites are sadly out of date. A farm database needs to be actively maintained to be helpful.