Food as Medicine has been a winning prescription for Farmshare Austin. The Texas farm and food hub can attribute nearly its entire YOY sales growth in the home delivery program to these initiatives. Food as Medicine also gives the organization a new approach for meeting its mission, an avenue to […]
SLO Farmers Coop was founded in 2014 to help small farmers in northeast Wisconsin sell more of their produce and meat locally. The cooperative includes eight family farms and manages two customizable CSAs — a weekly vegetable share and a monthly meat share, both of which are year-round. SFC also […]
GoFarm in Golden, Colorado, is on a mission to connect people with local agriculture, increase access to nutrient-dense local food, and train and support local farmers. In 2024, the organization supported 102 farms and provided food to 1,850 households, including 560 members of the Local Food Share CSA program that […]
If you’re like most local farms and food hubs, retaining your CSA customers from season to season is your biggest challenge. It takes an investment of time, effort, and money to get customers to sign up, and every year they stay with you, the returns on that investment grow. But […]
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. […]