Member Spotlight
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Reading the cave through smoke season
A West Coast farmstead member rode out a planned power shutoff and a week of smoke-orange skies without losing a single wheel. Here's how she read the cave…
Read postThe cave watching the sky
A small farmstead creamery in southern Oregon spent this week deciding, day by day, whether smoke and an evacuation warning meant the cave or the truck came first.
Read postThe quality manager who rebuilt her route
A quality manager at a mid-sized Midwest creamery had to redraw her whole sampling route this year around a production schedule nobody had ever tested before.
Read postThe cave she evacuated instead of defended
A coastal member spent Wednesday deciding what to save and what to leave, then evacuated ahead of the storm anyway. We talked to her about how she made…
Read postThe cave that lost power for nine days
A small farmstead creamery in eastern Iowa spent this week running a generator off a borrowed fuel truck to hold its cave steady. Here's what she did in…
Read postThe creamery that stopped waiting on wholesale
One small-batch member watched two-thirds of her wholesale accounts go quiet this spring and rebuilt her week around a farm stand and a mailing list instead.
Read postThe account that finally called back
A corporate member that renewed quietly for years without much contact finally showed up this spring — not for a discount, but to help move product to food…
Read postThe buyer who started cold-calling grocers
A regional wholesale rep who spent a decade selling to restaurants lost most of her book in March. She rebuilt it by learning to sell to grocery buyers…
Read postThe market that set up behind cones
A farmstead creamery member describes running her first market of the season with taped-off lanes, pre-bagged wheels, and a line that never quite got the old rhythm back.
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