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March 11, 2025
6 min read

How to Run a Successful Subscription Program Through Your Food Hub

Learn how to build a profitable food hub subscription program with pricing strategies, fulfillment tips, and marketing tactics to boost customer loyalty.
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March 5, 2025
8 min read

Pre-Season Sales Checklist for Farms: Tune Up, Lock In, and Sell More

Get ahead of peak season with a solid plan. Optimize inventory, refine fulfillment, and enhance marketing for more sales and less stress.
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March 3, 2025
8 min read

How to Sell Produce Online: Fruits, Vegetables & More

Learn how to sell produce online with a website and farm e-commerce storefront. Increase sales, manage orders, and grow your farm business easily.
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Cattle
February 27, 2025
3 min read

How Shapiro Produce Increased Sales and Efficiency with Local Line

Shapiro Produce streamlined order management with Local Line, boosting efficiency, sales, and retailer relationships while saving hours on inventory tracking.
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Cattle
February 7, 2025
3 min read

How Local Line Helps Monadnock Food Co-op Optimize Local Sourcing

Monadnock Food Co-op streamlines local sourcing with Local Line, saving time on orders and vendor communication. Learn how they simplify orders and track inventory.
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Cattle
January 31, 2025
3 min read

How New Pioneer Food Co-op Streamlines Local Sourcing with Local Line

New Pioneer Food Co-op relies on Local Line to streamline their local sourcing from 25 produce suppliers across all three of their locations.
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Pricing
Workshops
April 2 at 3 PM ET

Price for Profit: Farmer’s Guide to Pricing Products

Join Ellen Polishuk of Plant to Profit and Glen Young of Cold Springs Organics for a live, hands-on pricing exercise designed to help you price for profit this season.
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New Feature
Workshops
Recorded on March 5, 2025

Inventory Made Easy: Introducing Product Variants

Join us for our launch event introducing Product Variants, the latest Local Line feature designed to simplify your inventory, streamline your storefront, and give your customers more options—all without cluttering your product listings.
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Taxes
Workshops
Recorded on February 19, 2025

Simplify Your Taxes: 5 Strategies for Farmers

Join us for Simplify Your Taxes: 5 Strategies for Farmers with FarmRaise, a free workshop designed to help farmers take control of their tax season with simple, actionable tips.
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Courses and e-books

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Wholesale
E-book

Wholesale Readiness Program

This e-book library was created to guide you, the farmer, through all the steps needed to start selling to wholesale buyers.
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The Roadmap to Profitable Pick Up and Delivery roadmap
Fulfillment
Report

The Roadmap to Profitable Pick Up and Delivery

Having trouble choosing your pick up and/or delivery plan settings? Use this roadmap to find out what successful farms and foods hub are using in Local Line!
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Sales
E-book

5 Ways to Sell Out by Thanksgiving

End your season strong with five selling tactics to boost sales, clear inventory, and keep customers excited for next season!
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Latest videos

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Local Line guide to inventory management

Understanding your orders table

Use your Local Line orders table with ease! In this video, Alison walks you through the orders table, including filters, bulk actions, and exports.
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Local Line guide to inventory management

8 ways to sell more with email marketing

Email marketing is one of the most effective marketing strategies for small businesses. When used right, it can be both relationship-building and profit-building. Learn more!
The Farmer's Guide to Selling and Marketing

Ready Farmer One

What if you could increase your farm sales, reach new customers, streamline your sales process, and get back all the time you spend at the farmers’ market? What if this was all possible from your office?
The right sales & marketing strategy makes all of this possible, and Ready Farmer One is the blueprint.  
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Ready Farmer One Book

Calculators

Minimum Order Value Calculator

Calculate your Minimum Order Value (MOV) for your farm products to ensure you stay profitable.
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