Pumpkin spice season has just begun, but it’s not too early to start thinking about how your local farm or food hub can boost holiday sales. Here are twelve ideas for keeping sales high throughout the holiday season. 1. Create Gift Guides Give shoppers some inspiration on gift ideas for […]
Food as Medicine goves people access to healthy food to prevent or cure disease. These programs are growing across the country, and they present a real opportunity for farms and food hubs, which have access to the fresh, local foods these programs need. That’s why we’ve created “Food as Medicine […]
GrowNYC is a New York City environmental nonprofit that focuses on food access. Founded in 1970, a key part of the organization’s mission is to make food from local farms available to every neighborhood in the city. It operates three primary food access programs. Greenmarkets are open-air producer-only farmers markets. […]
Does your food hub need software to coordinate and manage product availability from multiple producers, scale up operations, and meet buyer demand? Explore Local Food Marketplace (LFM), the platform built specifically with food hubs in mind. We have powerful tools to help hubs improve their online presence and streamline business […]
Sun Produce Cooperative in Tempe, Arizona, is a multi-stakeholder cooperative founded to help the state’s smaller-scale producers increase sales and preserve their farmland. It aggregates from more than 40 producers and sells their products through wholesale channels and a “farmraiser” farm bag program. Sun Produce has a penchant for coming […]
Are you looking for ways to sell more produce to restaurants? As a local farmer or food hub, it can be hard to convince restaurants to buy fruits and vegetables (not to mention meat, dairy, eggs, herbs, prepared products, or anything else) from you rather than regional or national distributors. […]
High Country Food Hub in Boone, North Carolina, was founded in 2016 by the Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture to support local food producers through product storage, aggregation, and distribution. The organization operates as an online farmers market and has been powered by Local Food Marketplace since 2017. It sells […]
Thriving local food systems provide numerous benefits including: boosted local economies, increased access to healthy food, and more sustainable use of our planet’s resources. Throughout our 16 years of supporting farms and food hubs through our online marketplace software, we’ve seen that regional food systems succeed when farmers and food […]
Incorporating SMS (short for “short message service”) communication into a farm or food hub’s overall marketing and communication strategy has some clear benefits and is a great addition to your toolbox. Here are some important things to know about communicating via SMS that can maximize your success. Why SMS Should […]
Do you sell beef, pork, chicken, lamb, or other types of meat from an online storefront? Selling meat online comes with its own set of challenges that can take some effort and creativity to overcome. We drew on interviews with two farmers, Robinette Farms and Brookford Farm, plus our own […]