Have You Heard About CSA Week? In 2015, Small Farm Central coined “CSA Day” to recognize that February is the most popular time of the year to join a CSA (aka Community Supported Agriculture). Since then, the CSA Innovation Network has expanded this day into a full week in February dedicated...
When it comes to running a business, it’s not just about getting the sale. It’s about knowing how to get the sale again and again. Good data is the key to knowing which crops you should plant, which are your most popular delivery locations, how much each producer is selling...
How Fiddlehead Farm Uses LFM’s Software to Sell Customizable CSAs For CSA farmers, finding technology to support their unique needs can be a challenge. We recently sat down with Heather Coffey of Fiddlehead Farm to talk about how LFM helps her offer customizable CSAs all year long to families in...
Solving Your CSA’s Biggest Challenge: Three Tips to Retain Customers Year After Year If your CSA is like most, customer retention is your biggest challenge. Are you keeping and growing customers from season to season? It takes an investment of time, effort, and money to get customers to sign up,...
You’re selling local food online. You have loyal customers, good products, and high web traffic to your online store. But you’re still looking for ways to grow. LFM is here to help. Our newest guide, Increasing Average Order Value, is free to download and full of expert tips to help you sell more...
At LFM, our mission is to help you get local food to your community — from family dinner tables to restaurant meals, school lunches, community food pantries, and more. With all the different ways you sell your products, you need food distribution software that is as flexible as your business. LFM...
The most streamlined local food subscription experience yet — for you and your customer! We’re so excited to let you know about new software features to help you manage your customized CSAs, farm shares, and subscriptions! There are many ways to sell online, but typical ecommerce platforms can’t accommodate the...
Local Food and the Subscription Economy Plus, some new subscription features on the LFM platform. In 2019, businesses offering subscriptions grew five times faster than other companies (source: the Subscription Economy Index). Customers are seeking out convenient ways to get their favorite items without spending more time in the store....
New: Save Time on Accounting Accounting is complex. It’s even more tricky when your business distributes fresh food — something impossible to perfectly predict. And for a food hub purchasing from five, ten, fifteen or more different farmers? That’s a lot to account for. To help you keep up with...
You love helping connect shoppers to local food. But keeping track of payments owed to each of the farmers and vendors you work with can get tricky. If you manage a food hub, you know time consuming it can be to track what you owe, create bills, and issue a...