What Are Subscriptions?

Jul 31st 2026

What Are Subscriptions?

The short version: it puts the groceries you buy anyway into your cart for you, so every order starts half done instead of from scratch.

What is a subscription, and why would I want one?


You already know what a subscription is. Netflix, Spotify, the meal kit your neighbor keeps meaning to cancel. Most of them charge you a fee for the privilege of being a customer.


Ours isn't that.


A TC Farm subscription is a standing note to yourself. Pick an item, pick how often you want it, and it shows up in your cart on that schedule. That's the whole thing. There's no sign-up fee, no separate charge, and no minimum number of deliveries. You pay for the food, the same as you would ordering it by hand. The subscription just saves you needing to do it by hand each time.

You see every order before it goes out

Subscription items land in your cart ahead of your delivery day, not in a sealed box someone else packed. Open it up, look at what's there, add or remove anything.

Nothing is locked in

Skip a week. Change how often it comes. Pause while you're traveling. Cancel entirely. All of it takes about ten seconds in your account.

It isn't a membership

Different thing, set up and charged separately. You don't need either one to order from us.
The reason we built it this way is simple. Most households buy the same handful of things week after week. Eggs, ground beef, chicken breast, milk. Rebuilding that list from scratch every single time is the part that wears people down and eventually makes them quit. Subscriptions handle the boring 70 percent so you only have to think about the interesting 30.

What this actually looks like

Say you set up two subscriptions: a dozen eggs from Ian & Elizabeth in Dundas, and two packs of chicken breast, both every two weeks.

Here's what your week looks like now. You get a reminder that a delivery is coming. You open your cart, and the eggs and chicken are already sitting in it. You didn't do anything.


So the question isn't what do I need to order this week? It's the much easier question: what else do I need?


You open the fridge and look in the cupboard. Olive oil is almost gone, so you add a bottle. You're out of peanut butter. The kids are going through yogurt faster than expected. Maybe a loaf of bread and whatever looks good in produce that week.


YOUR CART

1 dozen eggs
Chicken Breast

WHAT YOU ADDED THIS WEEK

Olive Oil
Peanut butter
Whole milk yogurt
Sourdough loaf

Two minutes, and you're done.


That's the whole shift. Without subscriptions, every order starts at zero and you're trying to remember your entire life. With them, your order starts half full and you're just topping it off.


And the week you're out of town? Delete the eggs from that one order, or skip the delivery entirely. The subscription keeps going and they're back in your cart next time.


Think of it as your pre-filled shopping list. The staples are already written down. What's left is the fun part: what sounds good this week, what's in season, what you're actually cooking on Thursday.

Wondering which items to pick? Pull up your last three or four orders and look for the repeats. If eggs are on every one, that'd probably be a good subscription. You already decided you wanted them. Adding them as a subscriptions just means that you don't need to decide to add them again every time.

If you'd rather not think about it

Start with eggs every two weeks. That's where most people begin, it's the item folks are most annoyed to run out of, and you can change the timing or drop it entirely once you see how it fits. One subscription is a perfectly good place to start.
Change it or cancel it anytime in your account online.

How to Add a Subscription

It takes about a minute, and you can do it from any product page.

1- Find something you buy anyway

Start with the item you'd feel annoyed to run out of. Eggs and ground beef or chicken breast are where most people begin. Click into the product page from search or from any category.

2- Click Subscribe & choose how often

Pick the rhythm that matches how fast you actually go through it: every week, every other week, once a month, or anywhere up to every 13 weeks. Not sure? Guess low. It's easier to add a week than to eat your way through a backlog.

3 - Pick your first delivery date

This sets the date the subscription starts, and everything after that counts forward from it. If you already have a delivery scheduled, choosing that date puts the item right into the order you've got going.

Why subscriptions matter

We're a group of small local family farms working together to make organic, locally-grown food more accessible. 


When you set up a weekly egg subscription or a monthly meat club subscription, you're helping our farmers know how much to grow and providing them year-round income to keep farming sustainable.

Farmer Becca

Northfield, MN

Farmers Ben & Erin

Northfield, MN

Amish Family Farms

Baldwin, WI

Farmer Ian & Elizabeth

Dundas, MN

Farmer Keith

Gibbon, MN

Farmer Craig

Southeast MN

Frequently Asked Questions

No - subscriptions and membership are set up and charged separately. Subscriptions generate your favorite items into deliveries and membership is charged on a monthly or annual basis, providing reduced delivery costs and exclusive member discounts.


And you don't need either to order with us!

Subscription

▸ 1-13 week delivery frequency

▸ Automatically generates item into orders for delivery

▸ Adjustable in account at any time - skip, pause, cancel

Membership

▸ Monthly or annual memberships

▸ Charges automatically on renewal date

▸ Can cancel any time in account

▸ Provides member-exclusive discounts

▸ Reduces delivery fee and removes processing fee

Yes - you can always cancel or adjust a subscription on the Manage Subscriptions page found through the Deliveries page.


 (Deliveries page > Manage Subscriptions page)
 


 (Manage Subscriptions page)


Canceling a subscription will remove the subscription item from all upcoming deliveries and no longer auto-generate into future orders. You can re-activate a subscription at any time on the Manage Subscriptions page.


From this page, you can also adjust your subscription frequency, quantity or delivery date.

Not a problem - you can delete any subscription item from an order prior to the order cutoff (2 days prior to the delivery date) on the Deliveries page. This will delete the item from that one order, and the subscription will continue to generate into future orders.




If your order is entirely subscription items, you can skip the entire delivery on the Deliveries page.


No. There's no sign-up fee, no monthly fee, and no charge for having one. You pay for the food in your order, exactly the same as if you'd added it by hand.

No, and this is the part that surprises people, so it's worth reading twice.


There's no checkout button here. Whatever is sitting in your cart when your order cutoff hits is what gets packed and delivered. That's true for subscription items and for anything else you've added.


So if you do nothing at all, your subscription items come. If you want to change something, change it before your cutoff. If you don't want a delivery that week, skip it on your Deliveries page.


Your cutoff depends on which day your delivery is. You'll see the exact date and time for each upcoming order on your Deliveries page.

Yes. Two ways to do it, depending on what you want.


To drop one item from one order, delete it from that order on your Deliveries page before cutoff. The subscription keeps running and the item comes back next cycle.


To skip the whole order, use Skip Delivery on the Deliveries page. Nothing is packed, nothing is charged, and your schedule picks back up next time.

Still have questions? We're here to help!

Learn More About TC Farm


Every order you place with TC Farm allows us to farm in a way that protects the environment, ensures animal welfare, supports local farmers and builds a stronger, more ethical local food system. 


Watch the video to learn more about our mission, how we got started and how we raise our food!