Chasing Clean Data (and Catching Most of It)

Data hunts rarely start glamorous. Ours began with a simple question: where do we find a reliable, national list of farmers markets? Then came spreadsheets, acronyms, and a lot of “huh, that’s interesting.”

The short version

We sourced a national directory, normalized it into a clean, portable database, added guardrails for trust, and exposed it via an API that’s fast enough for maps and simple enough for people. Not perfect yet—but solid, explainable, and built to improve.

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