In private development
Decentralizing
the food system.
MAKA is the coordination layer between the people who eat and the farms that feed them. Standing demand, pooled locally, so farmers can plan and communities can count on food grown close to home.
Where food breaks down
The food is there. The farms are there. What's missing is coordination.
01
Farms can't plan.
A small farm plants months before it knows who will buy. Every unsold crate is risk the farmer carries alone.
02
Buyers can't find.
Families and kitchens want food from nearby, but supply is scattered across markets, websites, and text threads.
03
Regions are one shock from empty.
Most of what a region eats travels a long way through a few hands. When those chains break, local farms can't fill the gap fast enough.
How it works
Build the market
before the harvest.
- 1
Commit
Households preorder what they need each week from farms near them, for one pickup.
- 2
Pool
Preorders add up by product and week, so farms see what is wanted before harvest day.
- 3
Plan
Farms post what they have and what it costs. MAKA keeps the offer, the cutoff, and the pickup list in one place.
- 4
Fulfill
Pickup happens at a market or host that already exists, and households pay each farm directly. MAKA coordinates. It doesn't own the trucks.
Regional demand pool
Next 4 weeks
110 open for farms to claim
20 open for farms to claim
85 open for farms to claim
Fully committed
60 open for farms to claim
Sovereignty
Quality
Community
Food that is grown nearby, sold on fair terms, and governed by the people who depend on it. That's what a resilient region looks like.
Principles
Infrastructure, not a middleman.
The last generation of food platforms tried to own the farmer's customer. We're building the opposite.
Farmers own their records.
Catalogs, customers, and practice data stay portable on open standards. Leave anytime and take everything with you.
No middleman markup.
Farms set their own prices and keep their customers. MAKA charges a small transaction fee, never a markup on the food. Free during the beta.
Every claim has a source.
Organic, regenerative, grass-fed: each label traces to a certifier or dated evidence. Never to our say-so.
Route, don't own.
Local food already has hubs, co-ops, markets, and trucks. We bring them demand instead of replacing them.
Your demand isn't for sale.
Household and buyer data is used to run MAKA and nothing else. Never sold, and shared only with the services that run MAKA, named in our privacy policy.
Built for bad weeks.
Skip a week or change an order before the cutoff, and see in the app when a farm comes up short, so a bad week bends instead of breaking.
Built for everyone at the table
Households
A reliable weekly supply of food from farms you can name, without chasing five pickups.
Farms and ranches
Preorders before harvest day, and customer relationships you keep.
Institutions
Local sourcing with checked, dated records of who grows what.
Regions
A food system with redundancy built in, owned by the people who depend on it.
Private access
Help build it
from the ground up.
MAKA is in private development and opening region by region. Farmers, families, kitchens, and partners who join now shape what it becomes.