Local Food Starts Here
Get Involved
River & Rail Farm Stop is built around community, local food, and the people who make it all possible. Whether you are interested in joining our staff or selling your local products through the farm stop, we would love to connect with you.
Our Vision for the Future
A Long-Term Vision for our Food System
River & Rail is designed to meet today’s needs while helping build a stronger local food system for the future. With a neighborhood grocery, farmers market, gathering space, food trucks, and future distribution infrastructure, it creates fresh food access, supports local opportunity, and helps foster a more connected community in Jackson.
Values That Guide This Work
Everything at River & Rail is guided by clear values: access, community, partnership, and local impact. We believe fresh food should be easier to access, farmers and food producers should have fair opportunity, and community spaces should feel welcoming and vibrant. Those values continue to shape how River & Rail grows and serves Jackson.
Community Roots & Partnership
River & Rail is part of a broader community effort to strengthen food access and local opportunity in Jackson. Built on Grow Jackson’s years of community-based work and partnership, it brings together residents, farmers, local organizations, businesses, and supporters around a shared vision for healthier, more connected local food system.
Sell at River & Rail Farm Stop
Are you a local farmer, grower, baker, maker, or food producer? River & Rail Farm Stop is designed to help connect local producers with customers who care about fresh, high-quality, locally sourced products.
We are always interested in learning more about local products that would be a great fit for our shelves, coolers, and community.
River & Rail Farm Stop works with regional producers to offer a thoughtful selection of fresh foods, pantry staples, handmade goods, and seasonal products. If you grow it, raise it, bake it, preserve it, craft it, or create it locally, we would love to hear from you.
Built on the Work of Grow Jackson
How River & Rail Fits Within Grow Jackson
River & Rail is the next evolution of Grow Jackson’s mission. Grow Jackson began as a community gardening initiative focused on improving access to fresh food, then expanded into youth workforce development, nutrition education, food distribution, and community partnerships across Jackson. River & Rail builds on that foundation by creating permanent infrastructure that supports fresh food access, local farmers, and long-term food system growth.
Work at River & Rail
Interested in being part of River & Rail Farm Stop? We are always excited to meet people who care about local food, community, hospitality, and creating a welcoming experience for every customer who walks through our doors.
Working at River & Rail means being part of something rooted in purpose. Our staff helps connect customers with fresh local food, supports regional farmers and makers, and helps create a friendly space where people feel right at home.
If you are dependable, kind, hard-working, and excited about serving the community, we would love to hear from you.