If you are a farm that sells directly to your customers, you need to have a solid farm marketing plan that leverages email. Email is the most cost-effective channel to improve your over marketing and sales strategy as a small or medium-sized farm. Email is the primary communication channel for many businesses due to its ease of use for managing information. Although …

We are excited to announce a partnership with the City of Pittsburgh as part of their PGH Lab 3.0 cohort where we will be working to improve Pittsburgh farmers markets with our farmer-focused software and services. The PGH Lab program provides a platform where local startups use technology to make the City of Pittsburgh more efficient, sustainable, and inclusive. As part of …

There are a lot of benefits for farmers who sell to local wholesale food to businesses and restaurants. To start, Cropolis witnesses the direct, positive effects that these types of relationships build for participating farms. When we began to inspect food data in 2015, the USDA reported that direct retail sales accounted for a third of total local food sales, …

Like many who have studied what they eat and how that food gets to their plate, each member of the Cropolis team has a passion for the story behind every meal. We have found the story behind food to be a combination of brilliant coordination and puzzling dysfunction. A common passion for food is what brought us together, but the …