OPERATIONS
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Services and Products
FarmFED offers flexible processing services designed to meet the real needs of school and other institutional food service programs — reducing prep labor, fitting existing recipes and equipment, and making locally grown food a viable menu option even outside the growing season.
Processing Services and Products
Wash & peel: Root vegetables, garlic
Slice (8, 10, 12mm): Soft & hard vegetables, fruit
Dice (8, 10, 12mm): Soft & hard vegetables, fruit
Extract seeds & skin: Fruit, various vegetables
Puree: All fruits and vegetables
Roast: Root vegetables
Traditional freeze: All fruits and vegetables
Freeze dry: Vegetables, fruits, herbs
Packaging Options
Vacuum sealing: Air removed for maximum shelf life (note: garlic and onions cannot be vacuum sealed)
Bag sealing: Sealed and dated
Bulk packaging: 5-gallon buckets for all fruits and vegetables
As of June 2026, FarmFED holds approved HACCP plans for 46 products, including frozen and roasted vegetables, freeze-dried fruits, sauce bases, and roasted vegetable mixes. FarmFED can also develop custom products to your specifications and create the required HACCP plan.
For more information, contact:
Kevin Sullivan, Operations Manager
farmfedproduction@gmail.com | 217-816-0983
Business Model
FarmFED provides processing infrastructure and market connections that neither local growers nor institutional buyers can easily access on their own, while keeping operations lean enough that everyone in the chain benefits.
For growers and aggregators: Partnering with FarmFED means the opportunity to sell more product, reduce spoilage, and skip the burden of individual marketing — even if the per-unit price is lower than direct sales would bring.
For school districts and institutions: FarmFED offers a practical path to featuring local food on menus. We can work directly with food service directors to identify ingredients already in use that could be substituted with locally sourced, pre-processed alternatives — fitting existing recipes, equipment, and budget constraints.
FarmFED’s approach includes three flexible models:
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Farmer-directed processing — growers or aggregators contract with FarmFED to produce specific products their institutional customers need
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Institution-focused product development — FarmFED works with a school and institutional buyers to develop a specific product, then connects them with local producers who can supply it
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Custom solutions — processing tailored to school and institutional nutrition standards, menu cycles, and procurement requirements
We won’t minimize the challenge: food businesses operate on thin margins, and building a sustainable local food supply chain takes time, trust, and ongoing investment. But as a cooperative, every partnership we build strengthens the whole system — for farmers, for schools, and for the communities we all share.
Mailing Address: 108 S. Washington St., Mt. Pulaski IL 62548