More About Corbin Hill Food Project Organization Type: Non-Profit, Food Hub Customers: Wholesale, CSA, Consumers Website: http://corbinhill-foodproject.org/ Joined us in 2018. Corbin Hill Food Project is a Harlem-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and social enterprise. In 2018 the organization implemented LFM to help increase their capacity for providing access to fresh,...
More About Fair Share Farm Organization Type: Individual producer Customers: Consumers, restaurants, retailers Website: https://www.fairsharefarm.net/ Joined us in 2017. Located in the Piedmont of North Carolina, Fair Share Farm operates on five acres producing USDA GAP Certified greens, roots, garnish and other specialty items. In 2017, Fair Share Farm implemented LFM to dramatically...
Every once in a while, something you read stops you in your tracks and makes you reflect and really think. Does this happen to you? A long time customer, Idaho’s Bounty Cooperative, recently wrote a letter to their stakeholders that illustrates so much of what our movement is wrestling with...
More About Sustʻāina ble Molokai Organization Type: Online market Customers: Consumers Website: http://www.sustainablemolokai.org/ Joined us in 2016. Sustʻ āina ble Molokai is a grassroots, community-based 501c3 non-profit located in Kaunakakai, Hawaii. In 2016, the organization implemented LFM to expand their Food Hub program into a mobile marketplace. This expansion helped put their Food...
More About Queen’s Greens Organization Type: Individual Producer Customers: Wholesale, Consumers, Restaurants, Specialty Website: https://www.queensgreensfarm.com/ Joined us in 2016. Read the Queen’s Green’s Blog Interview Queen’s Greens farm is located on 35 acres in Western Massachusetts. They grow certified organic vegetables, focusing production on gourmet greens, sold solely through boutique wholesale...
Leveraging Promo Codes in Your Marketing Plan – Online Food Sales We are excited to offer promo codes as one of the sales and marketing features available on LFM’s software platform.* We’ve put together a guide for best practices for using these codes so that our customers can maximize their...
Career Opportunities at Local Food Marketplace We are a small, dynamic team focused on helping local food systems compete more effectively within our global food system. We offer comprehensive technology solutions to the local food supply chain including food hubs, aggregators, cooperatives, producers, and buyers. We are proud of our...
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...
As the season winds down, are you reviewing how this year has gone for your hub and where improvements can be made? Did you experience trouble this season with a producer circumventing your hub and making sales around it? We hear on almost a daily basis the struggle that hubs face in...
Does your food hub sell to restaurants, catering companies, or corporate kitchens or are you thinking about it? Restaurants are often the first step for a food hub that is aiming for the wholesale market and they are often a key piece of a food hub reaching financial sustainability....