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Is your farm website doing its job?

Our free Farm Website Grader scans your site the way a customer does. Can they find you, and once they're there, can they actually buy from you? You get a grade and a specific list of what to fix.

Free. About three minutes. Report lands in your inbox.

👉 https://hubs.la/Q04xYF440

Picking and packing is one of the most important and most time-consuming parts of your sales week. We're launching a feature to make that process a lot easier!

Join us for our launch event introducing Live Pick & Pack Lists, the latest Local Line feature designed to replace the static export with an dynamic list your team works in as you pick and pack.

You'll learn:
✅ How to build a template once and generate a live list for any fulfillment date range
✅ How the pick list (by product) and pack list (by customer) views work
✅ Tips and tricks to speed up pack day
✅ What's coming next for pick and pack
✅ Live Q&A: get your questions answered in real time!

Whether you run a CSA, sell direct to consumer and wholesale, or run a multi-channel hub, this session will help you get set up and pack faster. See you Oct 15th at 12 PM EDT!

Register here: https://hubs.la/Q04xYpSB0

We launched a farm website grader!

Simply paste your URL and you get an online health grade, plus a report with exactly what to fix. It's completely free and takes about three minutes.

The Grader scans for two things:
✅ Can people find you. Search, AI answers, and whether your homepage clearly says what you sell and where.
✅ Can people buy from you. Online ordering, how fast they reach a product, visible prices, and whether your listings have photos, descriptions, units and stock status.

Most farms are surprised by their results! Try it out now: https://hubs.la/Q04wMn5Q0

Most small roasters think there are only two options for getting into grocery stores: find a distributor, or don't get in at all.

Rocket Cup Coffee found a third way.

"LocalLine gave us the ability to sell into 90-plus stores in four months, where normally a distributor would be the only other option," says Brodie Hill.

No middleman. No giving up the relationship. Just their beans, their pricing, their stores, and 90+ new grocery accounts in under four months, including Tops Friendly Markets.

Read the full story: https://hubs.la/Q04r8CbZ0

Every box that goes out from The Commons Makers Co-op introduces someone to a farm they might never have found on their own.

"Our subscription boxes have been great for introducing customers to local farms they didn't shop from," says co-founder Mike Degagne. "They've increased both our in-store food sales and our farm partners' sales."

Mike and Rachel Lachance built a year-round storefront for 60+ makers, farmers, and producers across Northern Ontario, a region where farm sales used to stop when market season ended.

Read the full story: https://hubs.ly/Q04r9q7F0

Coordinating milk, meat, bread, and produce from nine different farms sounds like a full-time job on its own.

For Jade Vincent of The Best Milk Lady, it's a few clicks.

"I love the managed vendors, because I can easily send my farm partners what I need from them without having to do a lot of work," she says.

That's how a two-person operation delivers fresh, local food to 200+ customers across the Jacksonville area every single week.

Read the full story: https://hubs.ly/Q04r8Cb50

"I cannot say enough good things about LocalLine," says Patty Kloft of Lonely Lane Farms

Her farm sells over 200 products by weight, from beef steaks to heritage pork, and they do all their own USDA processing. What used to run on email and phone orders now runs on one storefront, with billing that charges the exact weight after packing. Sales are up 25%. Paperwork time is down 5 to 10 hours a week.

Read the full story: https://hubs.la/Q04rvpnY0

A subscription program with no pre-packed boxes, no separate inventory, and no extra packing work. It exists, and Stacie Edwards built it.

Her Herd Farm Membership is simple: $125/month in store credit, a 5% member discount, and members shop whatever's in stock. That's it.

She walks through exactly how it works, how she prices it, and how she spots which customers are perfect candidates to invite.

See how she set it up:

Farm Subscription With No Inventory Management: The Store Credit System What if you could run a subscription program without managing any e...

Stacie Edwards thought her ideal customer was someone just like her: a stay-at-home mom with young kids.

Then she realized something uncomfortable. She couldn't afford her own meat. So how could that customer?

When she looked at who was actually ordering consistently, everything about her marketing changed. Who really buys pasture-raised meat, and what happens when you finally figure that out?

Find out:

Who REALLY Buys Grass-Fed Beef? (It's Not Who This Farmer Thought) Here's a short description for the clip:Who actually buys pasture...