Piedmont Local Foods: love & success between farmers, consumers, and the internet

From: RAFI USA
Series: North Carolina Farmer Voices
Length: 06:29

Piedmont Local Food is a regional food/farmer project involving multiple counties, connecting farmers directly to consumers with the internet. A story about how modern technology has the potential to save the family farm. Read the full description.

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2010_rafi_piedmont_local_food_031s_small Piedmont Local Foods is a regional project of multiple counties, though it's based in Rockingham County. Piedmont Local Foods connects farmers directly to consumers using modern technology and central drop-off/pick-up locations. Consumers place their food orders via the Piedmont Local Foods website; farmers receive the order and the order goes to a distribution center, where it's put in the consumers' individual boxes which then gets delivered to a pick-up location.

Any farmer can be a member and membership is $25.00 a year. All member farmers receive a barcode printer, so when they receive an order, they print the barcode to match the order, which is scanned at the distribution center and everything's kept track of for farmer and consumer!

Learn how modern technology can save the small family farm!

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Piece Description

Piedmont Local Foods is a regional project of multiple counties, though it's based in Rockingham County. Piedmont Local Foods connects farmers directly to consumers using modern technology and central drop-off/pick-up locations. Consumers place their food orders via the Piedmont Local Foods website; farmers receive the order and the order goes to a distribution center, where it's put in the consumers' individual boxes which then gets delivered to a pick-up location.

Any farmer can be a member and membership is $25.00 a year. All member farmers receive a barcode printer, so when they receive an order, they print the barcode to match the order, which is scanned at the distribution center and everything's kept track of for farmer and consumer!

Learn how modern technology can save the small family farm!