We're Jamie and Courtney Wood. We've raised our three kids in the Grand Valley, built businesses side-by-side, and learned the hard way what it takes to keep going when everything changes.
Every community-changing idea starts long before the launch. Here's ours.
Before the farm, before the marketplace — there were two people who couldn't stop building things. Jamie and Courtney started their first business at 26. No trust funds, no investors. Just a kitchen table, a shared laptop, and the kind of stubborn belief that comes from growing up working-class. They spent years in the early days of online marketing, learning every lesson the hard way. Some months were great. Some months they ate ramen. But they never stopped.
In 2016, they did what most people only talk about — they went all in. Twenty acres in Loma, Colorado. A farm. Real dirt under their nails. They entered the CBD hemp industry right when it was booming, and for a while, it felt like they'd finally caught their wave. The kids were growing up on the land. The sunsets over the mesas made every hard day worth it. This was the dream.
Then the bottom fell out. The CBD market collapsed overnight. COVID locked everything down. The farm that was supposed to be their future suddenly felt like an anchor. They lost the market. They lost the income. They were staring at starting over — again — in their 40s, with three kids depending on them. Most people would have quit. They almost did.
Instead of giving up, Jamie walked into a local farm store in Palisade and asked for a job. She became the Farm Manager, and what she saw changed everything. Every week, the same story played out: farmers with incredible food, families desperate for it, and a system so broken that most of the money left the valley before anyone could blink. Courtney built farm infrastructure. Together, they couldn't unsee the problem.
What if there was one place — one platform — where the Grand Valley's best farms, ranches, and makers could reach the families who need their food? Not a big-box grocery store skimming profits. Not a co-op with a six-month waitlist. A real marketplace, built by people who've farmed the land, designed for this valley. Free for farmers to join. Simple for families to use. Food that moves from farm to hub to your front door.
So they built it. FarmersMarket.store went live — a marketplace and distribution system designed specifically for the Grand Valley. Local farms, ranchers, and makers on one homegrown platform. Every dollar spent here stays here. Every order supports someone who wakes up before dawn to grow the food your family eats. This isn't a tech startup trying to "disrupt" anything. It's two people who lost everything, learned everything, and built the thing their community needed.
Jamie is the heart of FarmersMarket.store. She manages every vendor relationship and ensures every customer feels like family. After years of farming and managing a local farm store, she knows this valley's food system inside and out.
Courtney is the builder. He designed and built the platform from the ground up — the marketplace, the vendor tools, the delivery logistics. When tech meets agriculture, Courtney is the bridge.
Turning a vision into working software takes grit and late nights. These are the people who showed up, shipped features, and helped make this thing real.
When we say "we couldn't do this without him," we mean it. Raul is our lead developer — the person who turns our whiteboard scribbles into working software. He ships features as fast as we can dream them up, solves problems we didn't know we had, and treats this platform like it's his own. Big shout-out to Raul.
Started with us on day one. Anum helped build the foundation of the initial website launch — the bones that everything else stands on.
Also day one. Arzoo brought expert-level full stack skills to the initial build, working alongside Anum to get us from zero to launch.
Every order you place keeps food dollars in the Grand Valley. Every farm you support strengthens the community that feeds you. We built this for you — now come be part of it.
