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Increasing accessibility to local food is the hardest challenge of being a farmer. Sara George, Vice President of Minnesota Farmers’ Market Association (MFMA), learned this quickly after finding herself in the world of local food.
Since joining Local Line, both the retail store and the wholesale food hub have been thriving. Local Line has allowed them to properly organize their orders, track their inventory, and quickly reference invoices and payments after orders have been picked up. Communication between staff, customers, and farmer goes seamlessly and efficiently.
As George at Castor River Farm continued to grow his customer base over the years, he prided himself on maintaining a strong relationship with his customers. As the number of customers continued to increase, he was able to keep up with the production demand, yet when it came to deliveries and logistics – he kept facing order errors.
Recently celebrating their 5th year, Mustard Seed Co-op is a co-op grocery store stocking everything local!
“I’m using Local Line to be accessible to those people who don’t know me as well, and partnering with the rest of the people in that group."
“People say farmers are behind, but that’s not true. We’re right there with them – online!”
“The biggest benefit I found by using Local Line was how easy it is now to communicate! Updating and communicating changes to our inventory has become effortless."
"Well…Local Line does everything for me! I tell customers it is my personal secretary and encourage them to use the embedded store on my website."
Looking for a new business model, they wanted to transition to selling to individual customers through an online store. This is when they found Local Line.
Far from their roots of Northern California, BC ranchers Tristan and Aubyn Banwell are passionate about raising livestock to benefit the health of people and the environment. Operating in their fifth season, they’ve seen tremendous growth but were starting to feel the pains of growing their business.
Three Local Line suppliers were all working on their own independent distribution plans, but found success working together and combining their delivery routes.
Today’s food producers are constantly competing for shelf space. Products need to be clearly differentiated to stand out and so does their branding.
Today, Dalew Farms has pasture-raised lamb, cattle, and goats, all of which are grass fed & non-GMO. To keep up with rising demand, Chantal took their branding to new heights by creating a website and focusing on customer relationships.
As Vibrant Farms got started with Local Line they realized it had everything that they needed; from an online store to custom price lists, from CRM to invoicing and online payments, and even inventory and email scheduling.
If you're in the food & hospitality industry in Ontario, you probably know Flanagan Foodservice. Flanagan's is Canada's largest family-owned foodservice distributor, serving restaurants, institutions, and bakeries since 1977. Their story is one of service, quality, integrity, and hard work.
One of the biggest challenges for food suppliers today is getting your product in your customer’s hands. Many new food businesses understand that traditional marketing tactics won't cut it anymore.
