Boulder County food, by the share.
A local farm-share marketplace. Invest in a share from a steward you can name, draw from it week by week, and send your food scraps back to the same land on the delivery run.
Nine stewards. One account.
Start with what you'd actually eat.
Nine stewards and counting — meat, produce, microgreens, ferments, household goods, firewood, and classes. Four share sizes each. Larger shares lock in a lower per-unit rate, all stored for you and requested weekly as Dividends.
The stewards in the market.
Every share comes from a known steward, with practices we've vetted in person — food, household goods, firewood, and skills. All of them sit inside one hub's driving radius.
Nothing wasted. Everything returned.
A node is only as large as one hub can carry.
The Stalk Market is a nodal network, not a delivery company. A node is one hub, the stewards within driving distance of it, and the members that hub can physically serve — bounded by freezer space, route hours, and how much a single farm can hold. Yellow Barn Farm is the first hub. The pilot node is filling now.
9417 N Foothills Hwy, Longmont — hub, freezer, and route origin for every steward in the market.
150 memberships, then it's full.
The cap isn't a marketing number — it's one freezer, one set of routes, and one cluster of stewards. Past 150 the food gets thinner and the deliveries get later, so we stop instead.
Your contribution stays in this node.
It funds the cold storage, vehicles, and steward reserve for this hub and these farms. Not a head office. You're joining a specific micro-network of growers you could drive to on a Saturday.
We replicate, not scale.
When this node fills, we don't stretch it thinner. We rebuild the nodal system and stand up the next hub — more nodes, more pickup and drop-off points, members moving between them.
Only 2% of food grown in Boulder County stays in Boulder County.
That's the gap the Stalk Market exists to close: a closed-loop farm-share network where members invest directly in regenerative stewards, receive what they want week to week, and return their food scraps to feed the same land.
Most Colorado farmers earn just 20¢ per dollar their food sells for.
We're growing this number — share by share, scrap by scrap, neighbor by neighbor.
Shares & Dividends
A Share is a volume you buy once from one steward and draw down over time. A Dividend is the portion you actually receive in a given week. You decide when to draw — we deliver to your door or a local Node, and collect your food scraps on the way out.
What you buy.
- A specific volume from one steward — Mini, Quarter, Half, or Full.
- Larger shares lock in a lower per-unit price.
- Stored for you; nothing arrives until you ask for it.
What you receive.
- A smaller portion of your Share, requested Friday–Sunday.
- Home delivery — or pickup at a Hub, Node, or Nook.
- Food scrap collection included on delivery day.
Seasonal Investment Windows
Quarter, Half & Full shares openQuarter, Half, and Full shares are committed during these windows, so stewards know what to raise and grow before the season starts. Mini shares stay open all year — you can join between windows and start drawing right away.
Apply, get accepted, then the market opens.
Membership starts with a single Community Contribution, sized to how many people are on your account. It's submitted with your application and processed once you're accepted — after that there's no monthly fee, nothing to renew, and no second contribution next season.
Apply with your household size.
Solo, Duo, or Household — that sets your contribution. Everyone on your account contributes proportionally, because cold storage, vehicles, and hub capacity all grow with the number of people we're feeding.
We review and accept you.
Applications are reviewed by hand. Your contribution goes into the Seed Bank — the shared reserve funding this node's cold storage, delivery equipment, and steward emergency support. It never goes to operations.
Registration opens the market.
A welcome email lands first, then your registration email. From there you hold a seat in the pilot node: buy shares from any steward and request weekly dividends from what you hold.
What your household size means
The contribution is set by the size of your account, not by how much food you buy. Share pricing is identical for every member.
A few honest questions.
A Mini share. They're open year-round and priced to be a first try rather than a commitment — a few dividends from one steward, so you can see how delivery and drawing works before sizing up.
A one-time payment that opens your membership. It goes into the Seed Bank — a shared reserve funding cold storage, delivery equipment, steward emergency support, and food hub infrastructure. It never goes to operations.
Everyone on your account contributes proportionally, because the infrastructure has to stretch to cover everyone on it. Solo is one person, Duo is two, Household is three or more.
No — once, when you join. After that you only pay for the shares you choose, at the same pricing every member gets.
Unclaimed dividends expire at the end of the season — they don't roll over. Freezer and cold storage cost real money to hold, so shares are use-it-or-lose-it by design. Size your first share for the weeks you'll actually cook.
Skip the week. Your share is stored; request a dividend only when you want one.
Quarter, Half, and Full shares are committed during the seasonal investment windows, which lets stewards plan what to raise and grow. Mini shares are available any time.
You submit your household size and Community Contribution together, and we review the application by hand. Once you're accepted we send a welcome email, then a registration email that opens your account to the market.
At 150 memberships this node is complete and we begin standing up the next hub. We replicate the structure rather than stretching this one — more nodes across the county, each with its own hub, stewards, and pickup and drop-off points.
Picky Pig — our delivery partner — collects scraps on the same trip. They return to Yellow Barn to feed pigs and build compost.
Ready to diversify
your portfolio?
One contribution, sized to your household, opens your account to every steward in the market — and to every steward who joins the node after you.
Apply to the pilot node.
Pick your household size — that sets your one-time contribution, submitted with your application.
Applications open year-round until the pilot node reaches 150 memberships. Larger shares open each seasonal investment window.