Food Hub Success: How High Country Food Hub Utilized Collaboration Over Competition
Meet High Country Food Hub and learn how a demand for local food storage and distribution and utilizing collaboration over competition led to their success
Food Hub Success: Pivoting Amid a Crisis with the Kansas City Food Hub
Since 2009, Local Food Marketplace has supported hundreds of food hubs by providing a streamlined sales and distribution platform backed by our expert Support staff. We’ve put together an informative blog series focusing on stories of successful food hubs we’ve worked with for years. In Part 1, we spoke with...
Food Hub Success: Key Advice from Alaska Food Hub
Photograph provided by Alaska Food Hub Since 2009, Local Food Marketplace has supported hundreds of food hubs by providing a streamlined sales and distribution platform backed by our expert Support staff. We’ve put together an informative blog series focusing on stories of successful food hubs we’ve worked with for years....
From a Farm to a Collective: an Interview with Sunderland Farm Collaborative
Caroline Pam and Tim Knox of Kitchen Garden Farm Kitchen Garden Farm is a fifty-acre farm in the Pioneer Valley, the prime agricultural region of Western Massachusetts. They produce veggies, as well as making their own incredibly successful line of hot sauces and salsas. Caroline and Tim started the farm...
How the Cast of the Jersey Shore Saved a NJ Foodhub
Oliver Gubenko, the founder and CEO of Harvest Drop. Harvest Drop is a foodhub based in the great state of New Jersey, and it was founded by Oliver Gubenko with a passion for – not just local – but quality food. He found a gap in the local wholesale market...
Early Adopters: an Interview with WFM2GO
The lovely and hardworking folks at WFM2GO WFM2Go is an extension of the beloved Wolfville Farmers’ Market in Nova Scotia. A couple years ago, Wolfville Farmers’ Market decided they wanted an online ordering presence, so they formed WFM2Go and launched using Local Food Marketplace’s software. What follows has been a...
Quadrupling Customers & Saving Time: An Interview with Profound Foods
Photograph by Profound Foods and Profound Microfarm Located in Lucas, Texas, Profound Microfarms produces high quality, aquaponic and hydroponic lettuces, herbs, and microgreens. Farmer Jeff Bednar and his team work with LFM to provide sustainable greenhouse products to hundreds of restaurants and discerning chefs throughout the region of North Texas....
Focused on Farmers: An Interview with Liz DeRuntz of LEAF Food Hub
Founded in 2016 by seven Southern Illinois farmers, the Little Egypt Alliance of Farmers (LEAF), had two goals in mind: to make ordering local food easier for busy customers; and to support small farmers by providing an online marketplace to sell their goods. The group adheres to naturally grown and...
Lackawaxen Food Hub & LFM’s Subscription Module: An Interview with Executive Director, Christine Ahern
Located in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, Lackawaxen Food Hub is a regional food hub and multi-farm CSA utilizing LFM’s Subscription Module. Through their efforts, Lackawaxen Food Hub connects over 25 regional farms and food producers with consumers, restaurants, and food businesses throughout Wayne, Pike & Lackawanna Counties and Sullivan County, New York....
Customer Profile: Central Mass Locavore
Photo Courtesy Central Mass Locavore If you ask Jacki Hildreth about the genesis of her thriving business, she made the obvious analogy to a common kitchen staple. “It’s like peeling back the layers of an onion”. Jacki’s lifelong love of local food began working in her parent’s backyard garden and...
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