About Our Story

Welcome to Kakadoodle! We're thrilled you've found us. Our journey into the world of farming began several years ago with a simple realization while cooking up some eggs. Back then, with four children under 4½ years old, life was chaotic (to say the least!). I was using the cheapest grocery store eggs, never giving much thought to food quality. Sure, I'd occasionally grab organic items, but the added expense was hard to justify.

Then, one day, as I was cracking a dozen eggs into a bowl, it hit me: Why are these eggs so darn cheap? Something felt off, especially since my kids ate them almost daily. That moment sparked a change. We started buying pasture-raised eggs from a local farm. They were pricier, but the taste and quality were undeniable. We’d pile the kids into the minivan and drive 20 minutes to the farm—only to find no one there half the time, with the kids screaming in the back seat. This wasn't going to work.

Everything else—Amazon, grocery deliveries—came straight to our door. Why was local food so hard to get? With my husband Marty’s background as a software entrepreneur, we wondered: Could technology bridge this gap and bring clean, local food to more people?

Fast forward a couple of years, and life threw us a curveball. Marty was diagnosed with an incurable type of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma linked to glyphosate, a chemical sprayed on the corn and soy fields surrounding us. Though doctors said it could only be managed, not cured, somehow—by the grace of God—it went into remission.

That experience shifted our perspective. We’d always been curious about farming and still had this wild idea of using technology to connect people with local food. Cancer gave us the courage to leave our modern suburban home for a 150-year-old farmhouse and give this whole farming thing a try.

We started small with 50 chickens and built a website for our community to subscribe to egg deliveries. Growth was slow at first, but as demand picked up, we partnered with other local farmers to offer chemical-free meat, grains, dairy, and more. That’s how Kakadoodle was born—a marketplace delivering farm-fresh goods straight to your door.

And we’re just getting started. Kakadoodle is tapping into a new kind of local food consumer—someone who will happily buy local food, but only when it’s made simple and convenient. By making local food accessible, we’re building a more resilient, decentralized food system—one that could one day support thousands of small farmers, not just a handful of industrial giants. Unlike industrial farming, which relies on confinement, chemicals, and antibiotics, our vision works with nature.

Industrial food will persist as long as people demand the cheapest options. But by making local food effortless and attracting a new consumer, we’re sparking change—a food system that’s sustainable, decentralized, and in harmony with the earth. This is our big dream, and one that we hope you join us on!