Fat Beet Farm

What Fat Beet Farm does

Fat Beet Farm Kitchen and Bakery operates a single, vertically integrated farm-to-table cafe and market at 13830 W Hillsborough Ave in Tampa, FL, open seven days a week from 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM. The property combines a working urban farm with an on-site breakfast and lunch cafe, a market and bakery retail shop, catering services for private events, and public and private farm tours. Menu pricing is anchored on sandwiches in the $12-$16 range and breakfast items in the $8-$13 range, with catering dinner bundles priced at $200-$275 serving groups of 8-10.

The farm's infrastructure is built around a closed-loop sustainability ecosystem: an anaerobic biodigester processes kitchen and crop waste into fertilizer slurry and methane within 24 hours; an aquaponics system grows lettuce using fish waste, rainwater, and solar power; a 90-panel solar array powers microgreens grow rooms and the lettuce house; a 35,000+ gallon rainwater collection system offsets reliance on Tampa Bay's saline groundwater; and a vermiculture operation transforms local cow and horse manure into worm castings for crop production. Microgreens (Amaranth, Red Rambo Radish, Cilantro, Broccoli, Sunflower, Pea Shoots, Tokyo Bekana Cabbage, Beets) are grown in 7-10 days. The operation uses no chemical fertilizers or pesticides.

Revenue is generated through five direct-to-consumer streams: walk-in and pickup cafe service, family-style catering bundles, private event hosting, paid farm tours, and on-site market sales. Customer segments center on Tampa Bay area diners and food enthusiasts as the primary audience, with secondary demand from private event hosts (weddings, corporate lunches, milestone celebrations) and educational farm tour participants. Marketing is concentrated on a Popmenu-powered website with online ordering, a $500 monthly review contest, and experiential engagement via tours and events; the only disclosed external alliance is a marketing partnership with Noble Crust. No delivery service is offered, and the company is privately held with no disclosed funding, headcount, or financial figures.

Name

Fat Beet Farm

Legal name

Fat Beet Farm Kitchen and Bakery

Website

https://fatbeetfarm.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Fat Beet Farm Kitchen and Bakery operates a single, vertically integrated farm-to-table cafe and market in Tampa, FL, combining on-site sustainable agriculture (biodigester, aquaponics, solar, microgreens) with a breakfast and lunch cafe, catering, and farm tours serving Tampa Bay area diners, event hosts, and tour participants.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Farm-to-Table Cafe and Bakery

NAICS

Other Food Crops Grown Under Cover (111419), Aquaculture (1125)

SIC

Agricultural Production-Crops (100), Bakery Products (2050)

akta.pro primary industry

Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems (Fair Trade, Food Access, Regenerative) (BPAGALAD)

akta.pro secondary industry

Farmers’ Markets & Farm Stands (Fresh Food) (CRAHAHAE)

Keywords

• Farm-to-table dining
• Sustainable agriculture
• Cafe and bakery
• Private event catering
• Aquaponics farming

Headquarters

HQ city

Tampa

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Cafe Food and Beverage Sales: Full-service farm-to-table cafe and bakery serving breakfast and lunch daily. Menu includes breakfast biscuits, sandwiches, salads, and baked goods featuring farm-grown ingredients. Customers dine on-site or order for pickup.
2. Private Events and Catering: Private event hosting including weddings, showers, corporate lunches, proms, bar mitzvahs, birthday parties, and other celebrations. Catering services include dinner bundles serving 8-10 people with signature entrees, seasonal sides, farm salads, and house-baked desserts.
3. Farm Tours: Hour-long guided walking tours of the farm showcasing sustainability initiatives, wildlife preservation, vegetable gardens, composting, chickens, biodigester, bees, microgreens, aquaculture systems, wetlands, and coastal preservation areas. Tours conclude with access to Market and Bakery.
4. Market Retail: On-site market and bakery selling fresh produce from the farm, baked goods, eggs, grocery items, and prepared foods for customers to take home.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Fat Beet Farm is a working urban farm integrated with a farm-to-table cafe and bakery in Tampa, FL. The on-site farm uses sustainable systems (biodigester, aquaponics, solar, rain collection, vermiculture) to grow vegetables, herbs, microgreens, eggs, honey, and fish. The cafe serves breakfast and lunch using farm-grown ingredients, alongside a market/bakery retail shop, catering services, private event hosting (weddings, corporate events), and public farm tours.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Urban Farm Operations Working urban farm producing vegetables, herbs, microgreens, eggs, honey, and aquaculture products using biodigester, vermiculture, aquaponics, solar power, and regenerative practices.
• Cafe and Kitchen On-site farm-to-table cafe serving breakfast and lunch daily (Monday-Sunday 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM) with sandwiches, biscuits, salads, and baked goods featuring farm-grown ingredients. Dine-in and online pickup ordering available.
• Market and Bakery Shop On-site retail shop selling farm-fresh produce, baked goods, eggs, grocery items, and prepared foods for customers to take home.
• Catering and Special Orders Catering service offering dinner bundles (serves 8-10), large entrees, family-style sides, sandwiches, salads, and breakfast/brunch options for pickup at the Tampa location.
• Private Events and Weddings Event hosting for weddings, showers, corporate lunches, proms, bar mitzvahs, birthday parties, and celebrations with customizable farm-fresh menus and on-site venue.
• Public Farm Tours Hour-long guided walking tours of the farm showcasing sustainability initiatives, vegetable gardens, composting, vermiculture, chickens, biodigester, bees, microgreens, aquaculture systems, wetlands, and coastal preservation areas. Concludes with market access. Public tours via calendar and private field trips available.

Quantifiable outcome

• Microgreens contain 4-40 times the nutrient value of mature plants
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Noble CrustminorGTM or Marketing PartnerMarketing partnership with Noble Crust indicated by logo display on the Fat Beet Farm website footer. Nature of partnership appears promotional/marketing focused. No further details on partnership terms or duration available from source data.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Blue Hill at Stone Barns: Pioneering farm-to-table restaurant at the Stone Barns Center in Pocantico Hills, NY. Operates an on-site farm that supplies the kitchen — directly comparable to Fat Beet Farm's integrated farm-and-cafe model, though at significantly larger scale and national profile.
• SingleThread Farms: Sonoma County farm, restaurant, and inn that grows produce for its own kitchen. Closely comparable concept: working farm with on-site dining destination, sustainability focus, and experiential hospitality (weddings, tours, stays).
• Noble Crust: Tampa farm-to-table Italian restaurant that already partners with Fat Beet Farm. Operates in the same Tampa market with a similar fresh-ingredient, sustainability-emphasis positioning — the closest local comparable.
• Barndiva: Sonoma County farm-driven restaurant with an on-site garden and event spaces. Comparable as a destination-dining model built around hyper-local sourcing and hospitality events.
• Founding Farmers: Restaurant group in the DC area that operates its own farm and sources directly from it. Multi-location farm-to-table operator demonstrating how Fat Beet Farm's concept could scale across markets while keeping the farm-to-kitchen link.

Emerging players

• Lufa Farms: Montreal rooftop urban farm with direct-to-consumer subscriptions and on-site farm tours. Comparable for the urban-agriculture, sustainability-education, and DTC distribution overlap.
• The Perennial: San Francisco restaurant explicitly designed around closed-loop agriculture, carbon farming, and regenerative sourcing. Conceptually aligned with Fat Beet Farm's sustainability stack, though operating as a city restaurant rather than a working farm.
• Square Roots: Urban indoor farming company with on-site farm units and direct-to-consumer food programs. Comparable for the controlled-environment-agriculture, sustainability, and education-tour components, though B2B-skewed rather than restaurant-anchored.
• SweetFarm Foundation: Nonprofit sustainable farm that runs public tours, educational programs, and on-site farm dinners. Comparable for the tour-plus-events-plus-fresh-food combination, though structured as an impact organization rather than a for-profit restaurant.

Others

• Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture: Nonprofit working farm and education center that hosts farm tours and programming. Comparable as an ecosystem partner — Fat Beet Farm's tour and education offerings follow the model Stone Barns popularized, and a partnership path is plausible.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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