Counted live from the directory itself — the same listings the map draws.
Before you go: Pins sit at ZIP-level locations from public listings — confirm the exact address with the farm before you go. Stops that share one ZIP are nudged slightly apart on the map so each pin can be tapped; the list under the map is the source of truth.
How a self-guided crawl works
Pick your stops
Stops are the directory's mappable listings — pick your state above the map (Houston, our home base, opens first) and read what each place grows. Tick “Add to my crawl” — every stop you claim stamps your passport, wherever it grows.
Confirm before you go
Pins are ZIP-level, not street addresses. Follow the farm's own site link (where one is listed) and confirm the exact address — and that a visit works — with the farm itself.
Crawl at your own pace
Share or print your passport and head out — an afternoon, a weekend, one stop at a time. Finish every stop on a curated route and the route earns its seal. Please be a good guest: stay on paths, ask before picking, and thank the growers.
Garden-to-Table · Coming this season
The garden you visited becomes the table you eat from.
Garden-to-Table is coming: stamp a garden into your passport, buy from the farmer at this garden, and the tables that cook from it will thank you at dinner — a garden course, on the house with your meal, from the very fields you stood in. The stamp is the thank-you: one visit, one purchase, one table. No points, no balances — a note from the garden, carried to its table.
También viene en español: compra directamente al agricultor en el jardín, y las mesas que cocinan con su cosecha te lo agradecerán en la cena.
The crawl map
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Skip the map — go straight to the stop list
Curated crawls — Houston, home base
Three routes, curated from the very same directory listings — no invented stops, no filler. Pick a route below to see its stops, its finds, and your own progress on the set; the map follows the gold thread. Add a whole route to your passport with one tap, or cherry-pick the stops you like. When every stop on a route is in your crawl, the route earns its seal in your passport.
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Tell us the day — we'll thread the route
Answer four quick things and the planner threads a crawl from the same live listings: a curated route when one fits, or a cherry-picked set when your interests cross routes. Drive miles are estimated from ZIP-level pins — your drive will vary — and the time fit counts a visit at every stop.
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My crawl passport
Signed in, your passport saves to your account — your stamps follow you to any phone or browser. Signed out, it lives only in this browser, on this device — and when you sign in, the stamps you've collected here come with you. Every stop you add earns a stamp below.
No stamps yet.
No stops yet. Tick “Add to my crawl” on any stop below — or add a whole curated route — and your stamps will appear here.
Found something growing out there? Log it in your Field Guide ↓ — the collection that lives under your passport.
Collect what's growing
The passport stamps where you've been — the Field Guide collects what's growing when you get there. Each curated crawl is a set, and every find below comes straight from a stop's own directory listing: if a listing doesn't name it, it isn't in the guide. Spot one growing on your visit and tap Found it — on your honor. Pins here are ZIP-level, so there's no GPS trick to game anyway; the going is the game. Look, ask, and please don't pick — leave every garden as you found it.
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Your field guide is saved on this device, like your passport — nothing is sent anywhere. Growers: the guide grows when listings name what's growing. Claim your listing and name your varieties.
This season on the crawls
The collections as they stand today — what's in your guide, what's still out there, and how the guide itself grows.
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The stops
Every stop below is a public directory listing with a mappable (ZIP-level) location in the region you picked above — Houston opens first because it is home base; every state in the directory is one tap away. The numbers match the pins on the map.
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Grower spotlight
One stop from each curated crawl, in the listing's own words — what it grows is exactly what the grower wrote in the directory. No quotes we invented, nothing dressed up.
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Add a garden — propose a crawl stop
Every stop on this map is a verified Farm2Chef directory listing — that is what keeps the map honest, and it is how new stops get in. There are two doors, depending on who you are:
You grow the food
Claim or add your listing in the directory. Once it is verified, your garden or farm is eligible to appear as a crawl stop — and neighbors can find you.
You organize crawls & garden days
Sign in and propose stops and garden events through the Demo Board — the same intake our team reviews for chef demos at farms and markets. Garden clubs, schools, and neighborhood groups all propose this way; there is no separate organizer account to apply for.
A proposal is not a pin: proposed stops join the map once the listing behind them is verified — the same consent rule that governs the whole directory. Running a crawl with stops that aren't listed yet? Start with the claim door, then the Demo Board proposal door, and the route can follow. Spotted a stop that needs a correction? Email us and we'll fix it.