Member Spotlight
Every post the Federation has filed under Member Spotlight.
Closing the ledger on a year nobody planned for
A two-person creamery in the upper Midwest closes its books on a year that broke every plan it started with, and finds the numbers land in an odd,…
Read postThe volunteer calling members who went quiet
One member spent this fall making phone calls to accounts that had stopped opening our emails. What she heard back was less about renewal and more about being…
Read postThe router who rebuilt the holiday map
A route planner at a regional dairy distributor is redrawing her holiday delivery map around a driver shortage that's worse this year than she's seen it in a…
Read postThe stand that added a second freezer
A small farmstead member has spent the pandemic building a direct-order list one household at a time, and this week she told us why she's not scaling it…
Read postThe market stand deciding whether to move indoors
A member spotlight on a small-batch producer weighing whether to follow her farmers' market indoors for the winter or keep her outdoor stand running as case counts climb.
Read postThe shop that learned to ship
A member spotlight on the counter manager at Little Rind Specialty Grocer, who spent October building a first mail-order gift-box program before the holidays gave her a choice.
Read postThe course she finally had time for
With her tasting room closed since spring, a farmstead cheesemaker in the upper Midwest finally worked through the coursework she'd been putting off for years.
Read postThe wheels she set aside in August
A member spotlight on a small-farmstead producer who guessed right about fall demand back in August, and what her aging schedule looks like now that the guess paid…
Read postThe ledger she checks twice a week now
A farmstead operator who used to update her costing sheet once a season now checks it twice a week, and she's not alone this year.
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