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A Meat Vendor's Guide to Online Sales
In this free guide, we address six common challenges in the online meat and other variable weight sales market and offers practical solutions to streamline operations, build customer trust, and boost sales.
The Northwest Food Hub Network (NWFHN)
Food hub networks hold the potential to create a more vibrant & resilient food system. Learn more about this idea and the successes & challenges of the NWFHN!
A Local Food Business Guide: Online SNAP/EBT
A comprehensive guide to aid businesses in understanding their eligibility and navigating the Online SNAP implementation process seamlessly. Learn more about Online SNAP eligibility, SNAP Match through LFM, technology needs, next steps, and more!
Selling to Restaurants: A Guide for Farms and Food Hubs
In this free guide, we share advice for farms and food hubs look to sell (or sell more!) to restaurants.
Spork Food Hub
Farm-to-school programs can be a win-win for local food producers and communities. But how do you get your food into schools? We spoke with Jacob Weiss — the General Manager at Spork Food Hub of Davis, CA — to learn more about how the hub has been expanding what’s possible since their inception in 2021.
Green Mountain Farm to School
Green Mountain Farm to School is a nonprofit that works with over 50 farms and local food producers to provide local foods to the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, a historically underserved community. Learn more about how LFM has helped this hub find success with farm to school sales.
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Your Complete Guide to Email Marketing
Ready to optimize your email marketing? This toolkit covers how to get started. It also contains unique guides to creating campaigns to all of your local food sales channels: CSA, Retail, or Wholesale.
A Farmer & Food Hub's Guide to Increasing Average Order Value
A powerful guide to help you sell more with each and every online order.
A Farmer's Guide to Online Orders
Now more than ever, customers are turning to online sales to purchase farm fresh food. As industry leaders in sales and distribution software, we’ve created this powerful guide to help maximize your online sales and ordering system!
How to:A Guide to CSA Retention
We’ve created this simple guide filled with proven industry expert techniques to help you develop the necessary strategies to cultivate customers
and grow the value of your CSA.
Avoiding Sales Around the Hub
How does a food hub maintain transparency while also protecting its investment in that supply chain? We’ve broken down our analysis of this common issue, how to avoid it, best practices for food hub/producer agreements, and what to do when it happens.
Case Study: Kitchen Garden Farm
Kitchen Garden Farm is a 50-acre, Certified Organic vegetable farm, producing a full line of seasonal produce and Good Food Award-winning naturally fermented sriracha made with ingredients grown on their farm. Learn more about how they use LFM!
Brochures
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Streamlined Customer Ordering
By offering a simple, mobile optimized interface for customers to place and
manage their orders and account, you can spend time finding new customers and
better serving existing customers instead of processing standard order requests.
Subscriptions, CSAs, and Standing Orders
LFM’s subscription system is completely integrated with the web storefront, inventory, and order management system so all customer communications, payments, products, and distributions are all in one place.
Inventory and Distribution Management
LFM’s powerful interface will help you shave hours of administrative overhead every week by eliminating the many disparate spreadsheets and systems that are needed to sell, harvest, pack, deliver and invoice.
Success Stories
Read more about our amazing farmer and food hub customers following the links below!