# Buy From Farmers Direct

> The UK's independent food directory connecting consumers directly with local farmers, smallholders, and food producers. No middlemen. No markups. No corporate supply chains. Just real food from real growers, found fast.

## What This Is

Buy From Farmers Direct (BFFD) is a searchable national directory of UK food producers — farms, smallholdings, market gardens, and artisan producers — enabling consumers to buy directly from source. The platform is free to use for consumers and operates on a producer subscription model. It was built in response to a broken UK food supply chain: UK food inflation has risen over 30% since 2010, more than 10,000 farms closed in 2025 alone, and most households now buy 90%+ of their food through three supermarket chains.

BFFD exists to change that.

## The Problem BFFD Solves

The UK food system was built for efficiency, not resilience. Small producers grow exceptional food but cannot survive the logistics, contracts, and margin extraction demanded by large distributors. At the same time, households are paying record prices for food while local farms — often within