How Delivered Fresh Reduced Produce Pack Line Times by 40% with Local Food Marketplace Eight Ways to Save Hours on Your Pack Line This Summer Summer means longer days… and more hours at the pack line. Keeping large inventories organized and fulfilling custom orders for your shoppers takes work. With...
How To Boost CSA Engagement – and Grow Revenue with One Recurring Email New LFM Feature: automatically generate a “What’s in the Box” Email. Effective communication with your farm share customers is key to keeping them coming back season after season. Do you keep your customers in the loop after...
Have you heard about CSA Week? In 2015, Small Farm Central coined “CSA Day” to recognize that February is the most popular time of the year to join a CSA (aka Community Supported Agriculture). Since then, the CSA Innovation Network has expanded this day into a full week in February dedicated...
How Fiddlehead Farm Uses LFM’s Software to Sell Customizable Farm Shares. For CSA farmers, finding technology to support their unique needs can be a challenge. We recently sat down with Heather Coffey of Fiddlehead Farm to talk about how LFM helps her offer CSA (community supported agriculture) shares all year...
Solving Your CSA’s Biggest Challenge: 3 Tips to Retain Customers Year After Year If your CSA is like most, customer retention is your biggest challenge. Are you keeping and growing customers from season to season? It takes an investment of time, effort, and money to get customers to sign up,...
The most streamlined local food subscription experience yet—for you and your customer! We’re so excited to let you know about new software features to help you manage your customized CSAs, farm shares, and subscriptions! There are many ways to sell online, but typical e-commerce platforms can’t accommodate the flexibility and...
Local Food & The Subscription Economy Plus, some new subscription features on the LFM platform In 2019, businesses offering subscriptions grew five times faster than other companies (source: the Subscription Economy Index). This trend has only grown during the pandemic. Customers are seeking out convenient ways to get their favorite...
New: Save time on accounting Accounting is complex. It’s even more tricky when your business distributes fresh food—something impossible to perfectly predict. And for a food hub purchasing from five, ten, fifteen or more different farmers? That’s a lot to account for. To help you keep up with these purchases,...
Features that help you save time! New: Save time on producer payments You love helping connect shoppers to local food. But keeping track of payments owed to each of the farmers and vendors you work with can get tricky. If you manage a food hub, you know time consuming. it...
We recently spoke to Brittany Overshiner of Upswing Farm, a small vegetable farm in Pepperell, Massachusetts that offers a variety of CSA (community supported agriculture) farm shares. Brittany’s goal is to increase accessibility to fresh, local food. Read on to see how Local Food Marketplace (LFM) helps Upswing Farm offer...