A plain-English guide to how RaggedGlory Farm's website works — and how it can link up with other local farms to create a shared online farmers market.
Every product you grow or sell — vegetables, eggs, honey, meat, crafts — gets listed with a name, description, price, and how many you have in stock. When something sells out, it updates automatically.
Customers can browse what's available and place an order directly through your website — no phone calls needed. You see the order in a simple dashboard, just like getting a text saying "order came in."
You log in to a private admin area to add new products, update prices, mark items as sold out, and see your orders. No spreadsheets, no paper lists — it all lives in one spot.
Your farm's data is yours. You decide what to list, what to hide, and what prices to set. No one else can change your listings without your login.
Log in and update what you have in stock — carrots, eggs, cheese, etc.
Your site stores the inventory and displays it to anyone who visits.
Your inventory is also shared to a central market page that shows all farms.
Shops the full market, sees which farm each product comes from, and orders.
Sweet corn, squash, pumpkins
Pastured eggs, broilers
You — herbs, greens, root veg
Raw honey, beeswax
Customers see everything available from all connected farms in a single browsable list.
Every product shows which farm it came from. Customers can also filter by farm name.
If you mark something as sold out on your site, it disappears from the market instantly — no delay.
The market and each farm's site works on phones, tablets, and computers — nothing to install.
The new farm's website is built using the same template as RaggedGlory Farm — same structure, different name and branding. It's like building a new store using the same blueprint.
The farmer (or their helper) logs into their own private dashboard and enters what they sell — name, price, photos, how many are available.
With a simple link-up (think of it like "friending" another farm), their inventory starts showing up in the shared market alongside all the other farms. No copying, no re-entering data — it updates automatically.
Every farm manages only their own products and orders. Nobody else can see your sales numbers or customer info. You're cooperating on visibility — not sharing your books.
raggedgloryfarm.com is your farm's home base. You use it to list your products, set your prices, and update what's in stock each week. Think of it like your own private bulletin board — you control everything on it.
Without you doing anything extra, your farm's website can share a special data feed — like a window that other websites can peek through. It's called an API (just a technical word for a data window). The market hub looks through that window to see: what do you have in stock? What are your prices? When's your next market date?
farm.communityplaylist.com is the shared market hub. It's its own separate website — also built on Django — but its whole job is to check in with every connected farm, pull the latest inventory, and show it all together in one storefront.
When someone shops at farm.communityplaylist.com and places an order, the market hub handles the checkout — then quietly contacts each farm whose items are in the order. Your farm gets notified for your portion only. You don't see the other farms' orders and they don't see yours.
raggedgloryfarm.com = your farm's own private website and dashboard.
farm.communityplaylist.com = the shared farmers market that reads from your site.
Two separate websites, both built on Django, both on the same server — connected by a read-only data feed so the market always shows your latest inventory. You only ever log in to your own site.
RaggedGlory Farm's website is your digital home — a place to list your products, manage your inventory, and take orders.
The shared market is like a co-op storefront where all connected farms appear together — bringing in more customers than any single farm could reach alone.
Every farm keeps full control of its own listings. The network just gives everyone more visibility.