The Homegrown Vendor Blog

Consumers pay 2-5x more for holiday and gift items. Tiered pricing, bundle strategy, and positioning seasonal products at a premium.

Back-to-school snack ideas for food vendors. Nut-free lunchbox packs, after-school bundles, teacher gift sets, PTA partnerships, and weekly subscriptions.

Learn how to run a giveaway for your food business on social media that builds your customer list and drives first-time orders. Step-by-step guide for small ven

Run a weekly food drop from your home kitchen. Pre-order pickup model with zero waste, weekly menu posting, order cutoffs, and porch pickup setup.

How to sell Christmas cookies and holiday gift sets. Pricing, packaging, production timeline, and pre-order strategy for cottage food vendors.

Build a simple referral program for your food vendor business. Two-sided offers, best reward types, promotion tactics, and manual tracking without software.

Build an order confirmation process for your food business. Templates for text and email, what to include, pickup reminders, and automation options.

Work backward from market day to build a simple weekly production schedule. Covers batch planning, ingredient lists, and tracking what sells.

Your market regulars already love your products. Here is exactly how to get them ordering online between markets with a clipboard, a text message, and a simple link.