Tips and best practices to running a successful online store for your farm or farmers' market

How Brown Sugar Produce Built the CSA of Their Dreams with Local Line

Brown Sugar Produce is a family-owned and operated produce farm located just outside of Brandon,...

How This Missouri Family Farm Meets Demand Online Using Local Line

Arcenio and Karin are former U.S. Marines turned farmers. Their farm, Wolf Creek Family Farm, is...

How Wolf Creek Family Farm Sells By Weight Using Local Line

More and more farms are diversifying their revenues. From running a CSA program, adding laying...

Updates to our 'Starter Plan', now sold at $29/month

In February 2022 we launched an innovative new pricing tier called ‘Starter’ in which farms could...

LocalPay, a better way for farms to accept online payments

Food is a low-margin industry. Farmers, producers, manufacturers, distributors, chefs, and grocers;...

Local Line Launches in The UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand

Local Line began with an idea. I was frustrated that the food grown closest to you is the most...

How to Sell Meat by Weight Online Using Local Line

For many farmers, sticking to pack sizes doesn’t make sense for their business. For example, if...

The Top 5 Local Line Sales Reports You Need to Be Using for Your Farm

Let’s talk data. Farming successfully relies on many data inputs. You monitor rain, soil health,...

Direct Marketing Farmers Are Selling More Online

Diversifying your sales channels helps ensure the long-term success of your business. This is true...

7 Local Line Best Practices To Increase Your Online Sales

Get the most out of your Local Line account! Using all the features to the fullest will allow you...

Local Line Guide: Use Advanced Inventory to Save Time on Your Farm

To help our customers better manage their inventories, we created Advanced Inventory. This feature...

How to Take Product Photos for Your Online Farm Store

A lot goes into building a beautiful online store. Great product descriptions, a stand-out brand...

How This CSA Increased Their Average Sales with Local Line

Since moving their CSA online, Milky Way Farm’s sales have seen a noteworthy increase in their...

The Best Farming Book You'll Read This Year Isn't About Farming.

How ‘Ready Farmer One’ Will Change The Way You Think About Business Ready Farmer One is a modern...

How to Write Product Descriptions That Sell

When you’re selling food online, your product descriptions and product photos are the most...

4 Successful Local Line Websites to Inspire Your Own

Websites are crucial for your business. It allows you to carve out a piece of the Internet for...

The Role Community Organizations Play in Local Food Access

Beyond buying and selling food that was grown nearby, local food is about sharing the knowledge,...

Upselling and Cross-Selling: How to Increase Your Order Size

The most frequent question we get from farmers is how can I increase my order size to meet my...

How to Start an Online Food Business: In Six Steps

Jams, Bread, Eggs, Microgreens? If you have a green thumb or can kill it in the kitchen, here’s how...

How to Sell Flowers Online

Flower farmers, let’s make market days a little bit easier.

Increasing Access to Farm Loans for Small-Scale Regenerative Farmers

Regenerative agriculture is described as farming and grazing practices that help to reverse land...

Building a New Food System, One Digital Farmer at a Time

As the world has industrialized and digitized, locally grown foods have become harder and harder to...

Local Line 2.0: The Best Platform Ever Built for the Local Food System

After working for over a year, we are excited to welcome you to a whole new Local Line experience....

Sell More, Spend Less: How this California Farmer Sells Online

Kathryn, from Laughing Duck Farm out of Newcastle, California, started selling online in late 2019....

How This Microgreens Farmer Took Control of Their Sales

Leveraging Data as a Farmer We all know data plays a large role in success. Starting their...