Directory governance
Listing criteria
Homegrown is a directory of farms, markets, stores, restaurants, vendors, and distributors connected to transparent, local food systems.
What belongs in the directory
- Entities that grow, make, sell, serve, or move food with clear locality and sourcing signals.
- Listings with enough factual detail to tell users what the place is, where it is, and what they can expect.
- Businesses or projects whose practices can be described plainly without inflated claims.
What Homegrown avoids
- Marketplace behaviour, pay-to-rank placement, and promotional language disguised as fact.
- Claims that cannot be supported by the listing itself or by reliable source material.
- Entries with too little information to be useful or too much ambiguity to be trustworthy.
How corrections work
Users are encouraged to submit updates when hours, sourcing, ownership, availability, or contact details change. Corrections are part of maintaining an accurate directory, not a mark against the listing.