January 20, 2021

Supplier Spotlight: Slow Rise Farm

100% organic wild Maine blueberries and fruit snacks.

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Food Justice is Social Justice
January 18, 2021
A resource list in recognition of MLK Day.
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Engaging Consumers With Local Food Stories
January 14, 2021
Why grocers need to become storytellers about the food they sell.
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Supplier Spotlight: Five Way Foods
January 11, 2021
Making fresh, flavorful, intensely nutritious broths using time-honored techniques and locally sourced ingredients.
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Supplier Spotlight: Sofia Foods
December 29, 2020
A family-owned Michigan company that makes gourmet olive tapenades
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Consumers & Local Food
December 18, 2020
Five eye-opening data points about local food and grocery marketing (previously published LocalIQ Marketing Blog)
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Supplier Spotlight: Sleeping Giant Coffee Co.
December 15, 2020
A small-batch coffee roaster in Connecticut partnering with women-owned cooperatives around the world.
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Building a Local Food Program: A Guide for Grocers [Infographic]
December 10, 2020
Overcoming the 3 key challenges of building a local program: lack of control, burdensome process and fragmented data.
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Foster Local Procurement Relationships While Maintaining Central Control: Introducing Forager Enterprise
December 1, 2020
Removing barriers to store-level ordering to grow local sourcing for Roche Bros.
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Supplier Spotlight: SlackTide Coffee
November 23, 2020
An independent coffee roaster, sourcing from selected farms around the globe and roasting in small batches in Marshfield, MA.
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Supplier Spotlight: Crooked Face Creamery
November 13, 2020
Ten-year-old family farm producing small-batch cheese and grass-fed meat in Maine.
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Roche Bros. VP Discusses Expanding Local Food Through Forager Partnership [Video]
November 11, 2020
Buying local food direct through Forager supports grocer's position as a local New England brand.
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Supplier Spotlight: Potager Soap Company
November 7, 2020
A woman-owned, family business creating organic soaps in historic, Concord, MA.
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Customers Frustrated that Grocers Don't Offer More Local Food [Infographic]
November 5, 2020
Local food is one of the hottest trends in grocery, griven in part by covid, yet supermarkets don’t deliver.
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Canned Pumpkin Filling Shortage or Not, Here's How to Make Your Own
November 1, 2020
Preparing real pumpkin for all of your favorite seasonal dishes.
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4 Takeaways from PMA #FreshSummit, #ShopTalk Meetup and #FoodEdge 2020 That Impact The Local Food Economy
October 29, 2020
Food industry conference learnings round up - October 2020.
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New Research By Institute for Food Technologies Reveals 53% of Grocery Shoppers Find It Challenging to Find Products that Support Wellness Goals [Infographic]
October 21, 2020
Latest IFT infographic shows healthy and fresh products are a challenge for online shoppers.
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Celebrating and Supporting Our Indigenous Communities
October 14, 2020
Indigenous People's Day is a call to action and awareness about the impact of COVID-19 on these communities. Forager is helping and you can too.
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Local Food Wins the New Normal
October 7, 2020
What does our latest consumer survey reveal about grocery shoppers' new priorities?
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Supplier Spotlight - Bumbleroot Farm
August 10, 2020
Two families sharing life and learning on an organic vegetable and flower farm in Maine.
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Supplier Spotlight - Blue Barrens
May 23, 2020
Meet Blue Barrens - supplying Maine blueberries on the Forager platform.
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