Customizable Farm Shares: 4 Models for Local Food Businesses Are you selling farm shares? Subscribing to a farm share—otherwise known as Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)—can be a great way for local-food lovers to support your business. The classic CSA model is a “farmers choice,” where consumers embrace the element of...
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...
An Interview with William Jennings of Dreaming Out Loud Dreaming Out Loud is a DC-based nonprofit with the mission of creating economic opportunities for marginalized communities through building a healthy and equitable food system. Their CSA program, called Black Farm CSA, aims to economically support black and brown farmers. The...
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...