Rapid Access Records Evaluation

YourRecordsTelltheStoryofYourFarm.

RARE helps farmers and food-system partners identify strengths, organize records, and prepare for new opportunities—without turning readiness into another burden.

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Farmer-activated readiness

What RARE Is

RARE stands for Rapid Access Records Evaluation. It is a farmer-activated readiness assessment created by Good Earth Therapy to help small-scale farms understand where they stand across four areas:

Records · Access · Reconciliation · Evaluation

RARE turns the information growers already know about their operations into a clear readiness snapshot, practical next steps, and stronger visibility across the food system.

RARE supplier network interface organizing farm and food-system information — RARE organizes supplier information into a structure food-system partners can use.

Records are more than paperwork. They are cultural memory, operational infrastructure, and evidence of the work behind every harvest.

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Complete a brief assessment to identify your farm's strengths, uncover foundational gaps, and receive practical next steps for improving recordkeeping, product tracking, traceability, and market readiness.

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RARE scoring worksheet showing readiness questions and status indicators — Behind each assessment is a structured readiness framework.

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What You Receive

Readiness Snapshot

A plain-language view of where your operation stands today.

Readiness Status

One of three starting-point indicators: Traceability Ready · Action Required · Foundational Gaps.

These are readiness indicators—not grades, audits, or certifications.

Top Three Actions

Practical next steps based on the farm's responses and priorities.

Shareable Report

A summary that can support conversations with cooperatives, food hubs, buyers, technical-assistance providers, and funding partners.

Example RARE report with readiness index and pillar-by-pillar score breakdown — Example readiness index and pillar-by-pillar view.

Example RARE report with status indicators and gap analysis — Example status indicators and action-oriented gap analysis.

Built for the Food System We Are Creating

Small-scale and historically underserved farmers
Black-led farms and cooperatives
Farmer networks and regenerative agriculture collectives
Food hubs and distributors
Food banks and community food programs
Schools and institutional buyers
Organizations providing farmer technical assistance

Participation is voluntary. Farmers control when their information is activated and how it is shared.

Good Earth Therapy network interface showing farm and food-system categories — A practical view of the many farm and food-system relationships RARE can help organize.

From Seed to Stomach

Farm records

Product visibility

Stronger coordination

Greater market readiness

RARE helps connect the story behind the harvest with the records institutions increasingly need. It supports practical preparation for traceability and food-safety expectations, including FSMA 204-related recordkeeping, without presenting RARE as an audit, certification, or regulatory approval.

Detroit Pilot Farm

Following the Food. Strengthening the Story.

WeEats Farms & Orchard · Detroit, MI · A collaboration in stewardship between independent operations

Led by Detroit entrepreneur Jamar Horride, WeEats connects growing, cooking, community education, and entrepreneurship within one evolving local food system.

Its closed-loop approach puts each harvest to work: farm-grown food can move into WeEats Catering, while remaining organic material can return to the soil through composting. This zero-waste philosophy demonstrates what becomes possible when production, food service, and regeneration operate as parts of the same story.

Through this Detroit pilot, Good Earth Therapy will use RARE to support Jamar in documenting and strengthening the systems behind the WeEats operation—without replacing the knowledge, practices, or relationships that already make it work. This is stewardship in practice: two independent operations sharing effort while each keeps full ownership of its own work, records, and relationships.

Together, the pilot will explore how accessible records can:

Document the movement of products from farm to food service
Make the operation's closed-loop practices more visible
Organize farm, harvest, compost, and distribution information
Identify practical recordkeeping and traceability gaps
Strengthen readiness for buyers, partners, funding opportunities, and institutional relationships
Preserve the knowledge behind the operation as a reusable business and community asset

The WeEats closed loop

Six stages, one continuous cycle. RARE Records sit at the center.

Record the Flow

Map how food and information move through the WeEats ecosystem.

Recognize the Value

Make regenerative, zero-waste, and community-serving practices easier to communicate.

Identify the Gaps

Find practical places where stronger records can improve consistency and readiness.

Build What Fits

Develop useful tools around the operation—not force the operation into a generic system.

A closed loop becomes more visible—and more transferable—when the story of every input, harvest, meal, and return to the soil can be followed.
RARE helps preserve that story as both cultural memory and operational infrastructure.

A Detroit Pilot for a Cooperative Future

The WeEats pilot reflects the 6th Annual Black-Led Day theme, "And Still We Rise: Cooperating Toward a Liberated Future." It also stands as a statement of stewardship: two independent operations, Good Earth Therapy and WeEats Farms & Orchard, working side by side while each remains fully in charge of its own land, knowledge, and story. Together, the pilot demonstrates how farmer knowledge, community food enterprise, and practical record systems can strengthen locally controlled food economies.

From the WeEats operation

Photographs supplied by WeEats Farms & Orchard.

Jamar Horride standing with a red wheelbarrow beside growing beds at WeEats Farms & Orchard — Jamar Horride at WeEats Farms & Orchard

A grower sorting freshly picked green and red tomatoes on a drying screen — Sorting the tomato harvest

Hands arranging green and ripening tomatoes on a mesh drying rack — Tomatoes on the drying rack

Planted growing beds of kale, collards, and celery in dark soil at WeEats Farms & Orchard — WeEats Farms & Orchard

Broccoli heads maturing in a raised growing bed at WeEats Farms & Orchard — Broccoli in the beds

A grower's hands holding two green bell peppers and a purple eggplant just picked — Produce being harvested

A grower crouched beside eggplant and pepper plants next to a hoop house at WeEats Farms & Orchard — Tending the eggplant and pepper rows

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Food prepared through WeEats Catering

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Composting or soil-building

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Community education or food-service engagement

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Hands, minds, soil and soul artwork with handshaking, knowledge, roots and heart symbols — Hands, minds, soil and soul.

RARE interface explaining pathways for suppliers to enter the network — RARE connects assessment insight with pathways into stronger networks.

Why Good Earth Therapy?

Good Earth Therapy grew from the lived experience of WoodBox Farm, a quarter-acre training farm in Alexandria, Virginia. Across nine growing seasons, founder Marcus Roberson—a U.S. Army veteran, logistician, farmer, and beginning-farmer trainer—saw that growers need more than good production practices. They also need accessible systems for organizing their knowledge, documenting their work, and navigating institutional opportunities.

WoodBox Farm cultivated the lessons. Good Earth Therapy carries them forward.

Good Earth Therapy LLC is a Black-owned, service-disabled veteran-owned business shaped by nine seasons of hands-on small-farm experience.

And Still We Rise

Sustainable food institutions are not built alone. RARE supports the cooperative exchange of knowledge, resources, and visibility needed to build a more liberated food future—while keeping farmers at the center of their own stories.

Hosted by the National Black Food and Justice Alliance and the Detroit People's Food Co-op. Theme: "And Still We Rise: Cooperating Toward a Liberated Future."

Contact

Marcus Roberson

Founder, Good Earth Therapy LLC

Creator of RARE — Rapid Access Records Evaluation

Website: getrare.live

marcus@gooderf.com · (202) 688-5737 · @goodearththerapy

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