The Homegrown Vendor Blog

Learn how small food vendors can use stickers and labels as affordable marketing tools. Covers design tips, printing options, costs, and where to place stickers

A practical guide for small food vendors on finding, reaching out to, and partnering with local food bloggers and influencers — no marketing budget required. Covers micro influencers, outreach templat

A step-by-step guide for food vendors who want to sell out their seasonal products before production starts — using pre-orders, waitlists, email marketing, and honest scarcity messaging through a Home

A practical guide to upselling and cross-selling at the farmers market — how to offer larger sizes, suggest complementary products, set up your booth for add-on sales, and increase your average transa

A step-by-step guide to identifying inactive customers, crafting personal re-engagement messages, choosing the right outreach channel, and building a simple monthly system that brings lapsed food cust

A practical collection of 30+ email subject lines for food vendors, organized by situation: weekly order announcements, new products, seasonal items, and re-engaging inactive customers. Includes the p

A step-by-step guide for local food vendors to get listed on best of awards, community directories, neighborhood apps, food blogger roundups, and more — plus how to maximize every placement for new cu

A practical guide to collecting and using customer photos and testimonials to market your food business — how to ask for reviews, where to display them, how to get permission, and what makes a testimo

A practical guide to building anticipation before launching a new food product — how to tease on social media, build a waitlist, run pre-orders through your Homegrown storefront, and make launch day f