Our Journey
Our Journey,
Rooted Here.
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.
Six Chapters. One Mission.
Every community-changing idea starts long before the launch. Here's ours.
- Entrepreneurs since age 26
- Years spent in the early rise of online marketing
- Always building, always learning, always adapting
- 2016: We bought a 20-acre farm in Loma
- We entered the booming CBD hemp space
- We went all-in on agriculture
- The CBD bubble collapsed
- COVID hit
- We lost the market — and had to start over
- Jamie became Farm + Farm Store Manager at Blaine's Farm Store
- Courtney helped build farm systems and infrastructure
- We saw the same friction every week: farmers working hard, families wanting local food, and the path between them far too complicated
- The Grand Valley needed a centralized online market and a physical food hub
- Free to join for farmers, ranchers, and local makers focused on feeding and nurturing community
- Food should move farm → hub → front door with less friction
- We built FarmersMarket.store to keep more food dollars local
- A marketplace and distribution system designed for the Grand Valley
- Local farms and makers, one homegrown platform
The Leap
Loma taught us what it means to bet on a dream. It also taught us what it costs when a market disappears overnight.
That collapse became the turning point — the moment that pushed us to build something stronger and more lasting for our community.
The Forge
Palisade showed us the daily struggle behind “local food.” Great farms. Great products. And a system that too often makes it hard to survive.
- Farmers need fair access to customers
- Families need a simple way to shop local
- Distribution needs to be practical and consistent
Our Ally: Raul Sandrea
Turning a vision into working software takes grit. Raul Sandrea is our lead developer, building and shipping features as fast as the work piles up. Big shout-out to Raul — we couldn’t do this without him.
- Lead developer for FarmersMarket.store
- Rapid builds, constant improvements, real-world problem solving
- Turning community needs into tools that work
Meet the Founders
Jamie Wood
- Vendor relationships + customer experience
- Grounded, practical, community-first
- Farming since 2010 · Grand Valley since 2013
Courtney Wood
- Platform build + systems + vendor tools
- Tech meets agriculture, built for real life
- Sustainable agriculture · Technology innovation
Local food, made simple.
We believe local food should be easy to buy, fair to sell, and built to last. FarmersMarket.store exists to reduce friction, strengthen local farms, and deliver the best of the Grand Valley to our neighbors.