Just Cut is an innovative social enterprise of the Center for an Agricultural Economy that provides institutions and individuals direct access to high-quality, ready-to-use produce. Our unique model connects the abundant yields of Vermont farms to food buyers of any scale. We provide opportunities for food growers to reach new markets and maximize their farm’s potential.
For Buyers
We aggregate, inspect, wash and prepare root and storage crops from regional farms for your ease of use. Our easy order and delivery process help minimize your labor costs while maximizing the nutrition, variety, and tastiness of your meals.
For Farmers
We contract with farmers at a mutually agreed price in advance of the growing season, so you know before planting that you have a guaranteed sale for your root and storage crops. Our prices, contracts and transactions are direct, fair, and honest.
Produce. Prepared.
We take great care to ensure our produce arrives fresh from local farms and is cleanly processed before delivery to your kitchen.
Grown in local fields
All our produce is grown by Vermont & regional farmers.
Raw produce arrives…
Raw produce arrives at the Food Venture Center from partner farms.
Is prepped by hand…
Produce is cleaned, sorted and prepared for further processing to specific sizes and cuts.
Processed to specific cuts…
Produce is then prepared in our commercial kitchen where Just Cut is licensed with the Vermont Department of Health and FDA as we’ve developed strong food safety plans to keep our products safe and compliant.
Cleanly Packaged…
All cuts and sizes are sealed into clean plastic packaging and labeled with vegetable, cut size, date, and farm source.
And boxed for delivery.
Sealed bags are packed into boxes and ready for delivery to your kitchen.
Delivered!
Orders arrive via refrigerated trucks operated by regional network of caring and dedicated drivers.
“Sodexo’s VT campuses continue to increase our purchasing commitments to Just Cut, as buying more of their local, minimally processed vegetable products not only helps increase our purchases of local produce, but also reduces labor needs for handling produce. For the 2020-2021 school year, we project purchasing 94,000lbs of Just Cut products, an increase of almost 50,000lbs from the previous school year.”
— Annie Rowell, Vermont First Coordinator Sodexo
