It is only through technology that we are able to coordinate orders, farmers, products, deliveries, and everything else that makes a local food marketplace a well-oiled machine. We spent a significant amount of time researching the software systems currently available before deciding to build our own. Growers Local has some unique needs that the currently available software doesn’t meet. For example: We are not
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Come one come all to our meetup next Tuesday. This month’s event will be at Concrete Beet Farmer’s Urban Farm in Minneapolis. Be there at 5:30 to meet other locavores; the panel discussion starts at 6:00. This month’s Local Food Happy Hour is all about Urban Agriculture. Join us at Concrete Beet Farmer’s Minneapolis urban farm on September 20th. This will be a panel
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Would people really order food online? At first I was very skeptical, noting the failures of companies like Webvan. I thought the evidence was in, but I was wrong. It’s true that people won’t order regular, boring old grocery items online, but there has been a giant surge in the locally grown movement. The traditional approach to getting locally grown food, other than gardening
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