About Fillco
We envision a transparent food system where customers invest in shared ownership of livestock and crops, partnering with producers to raise food that reflects their values — building a healthy, sustainable and profitable future for everyone.
Our Story
Kathleen Barsotti and Martin Barnes were pioneers of the Organic Foods Movement in the 1970s — a movement dismissed at the time by wholesalers, distributors, and retailers as unrealistic. Today, it’s an essential part of our food system.
Their third son, Thaddeus Barsotti, grew up on their organic truck farm in the 1980s, raising “ugly but healthy” produce and selling it directly to customers at farmers’ markets. Over the decades, he worked in every corner of the food system — growing, harvesting, cooling, shipping, selling wholesale, and running both brick-and-mortar and online retail — gaining a rare, first-hand understanding of what the current system can deliver, and what it cannot.
Fillco is the next step in that journey: a marketplace that reshapes how information and money move through the food system, giving producers and customers the practical tools to work together to raise the highest-quality food using the best practices. The core shift is simple but powerful: instead of the system telling producers what to grow based on what it thinks customers will buy, customers tell producers what they want and how they want it grown. This change puts values — quality, transparency, and sustainability — at the center, letting customers pull them all the way through the food system.
How It Works
Purchase a share of a crop or livestock from a producer that aligns with your values. Your share purchase funds production and gives you a stake in the food being raised.
Follow the production process from start to finish. Fillco provides transparency into the practices, decisions, and people behind your food.
When harvest arrives, Fillco manages storage and fulfillment. You receive your share on your schedule, direct from the source.
Vision
Fillco envisions a transparent food system where customers invest in shared ownership of livestock and crops, partnering with producers to raise food that reflects their values — building a healthy, sustainable and profitable future for everyone.
Our Mission
Fillco uses technology to connect customers and producers through shared ownership, creating transparent relationships that support the production of high-quality and ethically raised food. We enable this collaboration by facilitating the communication, accounting, storage and logistics needed to move information, money and food seamlessly through an alternative food system.
Meet Our Founder
Thaddeus founded Fillco with a vision to transform how people connect with their food. Growing up on a family farm, he witnessed firsthand the disconnect between consumers and the farmers who grow their food.
After years in the food industry, Thaddeus realized that transparency and choice were missing from the farm-to-table equation. Fillco was born from his passion to bridge this gap and create a more conscious food system.
“I believe that when people understand how their food is raised, they make better choices for themselves, the farmers, and the environment.”
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