Testimonials

“Our farmers love being able to list what they have available each week. When Market day arrives, they don’t have to spend all morning selling products. They just deliver what they have already sold! Our customers love the convenience of being able to shop from home or work at any hour. In the past eight years, we have more than doubled our participating producers! Our customer base and revenue has grown considerably each year! We couldn’t have done this without LFM!” —Karen Goodlett, Red Hills Small Farm Alliance

“What I love is the integration between the orders coming in and populating invoices, and then with a click of a button generating my harvest list, my pack list, and my labels. That’s what saves me hours every week.”
-Caroline Pam, Kitchen Garden Farm

“Local Food Marketplace helped us create a beautiful storefront for our online market. Their staff has gone above and beyond to help us with all the unexpected issues that come with a start-up Hub in it’s pilot year. We are extremely grateful to Amy and her team for their support.”
-Cat Wilson, Catskills Food Hub

“LFM keeps this food hub spinning! We are able to accept orders 24/7, which is big for a small distributor. The customer interface is familiar for online shoppers, and the backend is easy for novice sellers to manage their products and availability. We’re thrilled to be able to bring fresh local produce to customers twice a week.” —Cat Olson, Puget Sound Food Hub

“I have loved working with Local Food Marketplace. The storefront is beautiful and user friendly. I engage an array of customers with varying web capabilities, and if the customer can manage an email address they can usually navigate the platform. The customer service is some of the best out there!”
-Amrita Parry, Green Mountain Farm Direct

“We went from working with 25 restaurant customers to over 100 since implementing the software over a year ago. We were able to scale to do 4x as many customers as what we had thought. I wouldn’t have had time to do the marketing side without the 18 hours we save each week with LFM.”
-Jeff Bednar, Profound Foods

“Our time is so valuable, and it can only be spread so thin. For me, to free up maybe 15 hours a week that I used to spend handling order stuff, that is really important. I can now put those 15 hours somewhere else. Investing in LFM is totally worth it! Even if we were doing half the amount of wholesale we are doing now, or even less, it would still be 100% worth investing in. I just think that the time LFM has saved is invaluable.”
-Danya Teitelbaum, Queen’s Greens

“Transitioning to the Local Food Marketplace platform has been a game-changer for Corbin Hill’s Farm Share program. It has allowed us to implement a sliding scale payment model to support lower-income Shareholders and has improved Shareholder retention. Additionally, the built-in reporting functions have made it easier to keep track of year to year data. The LFM team has been exceptional in hearing our concerns about previous iterations of the software and has implemented updates as a result of our feedback. They took a strong interest in understanding our challenges and developed solutions that work. I highly recommend LFM to anyone operating a flexible subscription-based program!”
-Erica Christensen Raml, Corbin Hill Food Project

“Without the dynamic capabilities of the software to adapt to our programmatic needs and grow with our organization, we would simply not be able to effectively execute our mission and plan for the future.  In 2014, we were providing 150,000 pounds of food to NY’s Capital Region and this year (2019) we are on track to provide 750,000 pounds, which would not have been possible without our utilization of LFM. Local Food Marketplace is made that much more effective thanks to their regular, thoughtful software updates, responsive customer support services and their fantastic staff who have proven to be creative problem solvers.”
-Will Coté, Capital Roots

“I used to spend hours each week before harvest days inputting orders into spreadsheets and then another hour or two frantically invoicing before deliveries. With Local Food Marketplace I don’t have to do any of that. I’m no longer worried about overselling an item, missing someone’s order or making mistakes on invoices. The LFM system has allowed us to focus on other aspects of our business and saved us from doing work that always felt stressful. Having pictures attached to items also seems to help with sales, our customers really like it”
-Farmer

“Local Food Marketplace is so easy to use, it really lets us focus on the important stuff: our farmers, our community, and of course, the veggies. Mahalo for the great interface!” —The Sustʻāinable Molokai Ohana