INDYpendent Bytes Grower Intake Form

INDYpendent Bytes Grower Interest Form

Share your details to help plan the Spring pilot, matching, pooled supply coordination, and future procurement opportunities. Submitting doesn’t guarantee acceptance, land, sales, income, or a contract.
Growing Background
Current growing status
Years of growing experience
Crops currently grown or interested in growing
Growing methods used
What do you currently grow for?
Do you currently sell products, and if yes, where?
Business or farm name, optional
Current business structure (for example: no formal business, sole proprietor, LLC, nonprofit, or cooperative).
Business registration status, if applicable (for example: LLC or other formal registration).
Optional supporting documents (certificates or training records, LLC or business-registration filings, and insurance certificate or coverage summary).

You may provide these later. Do not upload documents containing Social Security numbers, full tax-identification numbers, bank information, or payment information.
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Do you currently carry business, general liability, or product liability insurance?
This short form takes about 5 minutes and is for pilot planning, training, land matching, and future procurement opportunities. Submitting does not guarantee acceptance, land, sales, income, or a buyer.
Contact Information
Full legal name

First NameLast Name
Preferred name
Email address
example@example.com
Phone number
Please enter a valid phone number.Format: (000) 000-0000.
Preferred contact method
Home address

Street Address

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CityState / ProvincePostal / Zip Code
City
State
ZIP code
County
Are you at least 18 years old?
Best days and times to contact you
Preferred language
Accessibility or accommodation needs
Interest and Availability
Why are you interested in INDYpendent Bytes, and what do you hope to gain?
What do you hope to gain?
Are you interested in the Spring pilot?
Can you attend orientation?
Can you attend training?
Land and Site Needs
Do you already have land to grow on?
Growing-site ZIP code or neighborhood
If you have land, how do you access it?
Growing-site address

Street Address

Street Address Line 2
CityState / ProvincePostal / Zip Code
Approximate usable growing area (the part of the site that can actually be planted, excluding buildings, driveways, and heavily shaded areas).
Preferred ZIP codes or neighborhoods
Maximum travel distance
Minimum growing space needed (an estimate is fine; one standard plot is about 10 ft × 20 ft, or 200 square feet).
Water needs
Storage needs
Accessibility needs
Preferred land arrangement (for example: free use, rent, produce share, maintenance exchange, or another agreement).
What can you contribute toward a land arrangement? (for example: rent, produce, maintenance, or utility costs).
Are you willing to sign a separate written agreement directly with a land host?
Water access
Electricity access
Storage access
Fencing
Vehicle access
Soil testing status (whether the soil has been tested for nutrients, lead, or other possible contaminants).
Known soil concerns (for example: lead, poor drainage, compacted soil, dumping, or pesticide use).
Known zoning or HOA restrictions (rules that may limit gardening, structures, sales, or site access).
Capacity and Operations
Estimated current or first-season production capacity (roughly how much you expect to harvest or sell; a best estimate is fine).
Approximate weekly availability during the growing season
Preferred crops and crops you will not grow
Tools and equipment currently available
Tools or equipment needed
Transportation access
Can you transport produce to an assigned INDYpendent Bytes weigh-in hub?
Maximum delivery distance
Days and times available for harvest and delivery
Access to refrigeration or cold storage (a refrigerator, cooler, or other place that keeps harvested produce safely chilled).
Packaging capability (whether you can bag, box, label, or otherwise prepare produce for delivery or sale).
Ability to weigh products (whether you have access to a reliable scale for recording produce weight).
Recordkeeping experience (tracking planting, harvest amounts, sales, expenses, or deliveries on paper or digitally).
Smartphone and internet access
Comfort using online forms and digital tools

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Willingness to follow weekly availability, weigh-in, packaging, communication, and delivery requirements to the assigned hub.
Willingness to participate in pooled supply coordination (combining your available produce with other growers to fill larger orders).
Personal and Community Information
Can you compost at home?
Composting experience
Employment status
Profession or field of work
Interests and hobbies
Skills you could contribute
Motivation to participate in the local food system
Anything else you want INDYpendent Bytes to know
Training and Food Safety
Current certifications or training
Willingness to complete required INDYpendent Bytes training and competency assessment
Willingness to follow crop, harvest, reusable-crate, weigh-in, traceability, sanitation, communication, and hub drop-off standards (including basic records so produce can be traced back to the grower and growing site).
Willingness to participate in mentorship if needed
Prior farming, gardening, culinary, food service, logistics, business, or procurement experience
Follow-Up and Acknowledgments
Are you willing to participate in a follow-up interview or site visit?
Permission to contact you about training, matching, pilot opportunities, and related programs
Confirmation that the information provided is accurate
Acknowledgment that submitting this form is an expression of interest and not a contract
Acknowledgment that any grower-land host agreement will be directly between those parties and INDYpendent Bytes is not the landlord, tenant, employer, insurer, or guarantor
Address
Electronic signature
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INDYpendent Bytes Grower Interest Form

Growing Background

Contact Information

Interest and Availability

Land and Site Needs

Capacity and Operations

Personal and Community Information

Training and Food Safety

Follow-Up and Acknowledgments