Aurora Local Foods

We believe that eating locally is fundamental in building a more sustainable world. Our aim with Local Food Marketplace is to increase the amount of food purchased and eaten locally by providing technology and services for farms and food hubs to sell and distribute local food to consumers, restaurants, grocery stores, and institutions.   We believe that empowering local businesses, cooperatives, and non-profits with the right technology will help make strong and diverse local food systems where food hubs, producers, buyers, and eaters all benefit.  Read more about our core values here. Local Food Marketplace, was launched in 2009 by local food advocates and technology entrepreneurs, Doug Frazier and Amy Mc Cann. The technology was originally written by Doug for Eugene Local Foods, a food hub that Amy and Doug ran for 5 years before transitioning ownership to Willamette Farm and Food Coalition in 2013.  Thirteen years after launching, Local Food Marketplace now supports 120+ food hubs, online markets, co-ops, and buying clubs across more than thirty-five states. Below is a little bit more about our founders and the rest of the team. “LFM’s business model makes sensefrom my perspective. You build theplatform,I pay for it on an annual basis. I get the software and the volume of my members or salesdoesn’tchange whatyou’reproviding me. And I really appreciate that LFM is not charging me a percentage cut of my sales,which is brutal and so true of most other platforms. That’svery importantto me.”–Heather Coffey, Fiddlehead Farm “Bundles area great wayfor customers to try different items becauseit’salready packaged and ready for them. We’vealso received a ton of positive feedback from our producers about bundles. They like that they can get their product promoted and sell a bit more per week, all without extra administrative work.”—Carrie Stokes Holst, General Manager at YVFH “Using SNAP Match through LFM is so easy for the customer. Once they order, the credit pops up on the screen and when they want to redeem it, they can easily select it during checkout. We must report monthly for Double Up Food Bucks, and LFM’s reporting features allow me to pull the required data very easily.”–Andrea Mc Adow,Rosebird Farms Amy co-founded Local Food Marketplace in 2009 to help level the playing field for local, sustainable food. Local Food Marketplace is the perfect blend of her two passions – local food and technology. As CEO, Amy focuses on bringing business best practices and innovative solutions to local food, including introducing the first and only white label mobile app for food hubs. Prior to founding LFM, Amy was the COO of a niche ERP technology company, leading record sales growth for over 5 years and a large-scale re-engineering effort. Amy holds a BSE from Princeton University and an MBA in Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Business Practices from University of Oregon. She is a former board member and Past President of Willamette Farm and Food Coalition, a Eugene-based non-profit. She was named 20 under 40 Rising Business Star by her peers in 2012. She lives and gardens in Eugene, OR with her husband, Matt, and two children, Cameron and Elliott. Doug was born in a rural suburb of Philadelphia. After graduating from college with a computer science degree from Bucknell University in 1992, Doug moved to San Francisco to develop his skills as a programmer, working at several Bay Area startups as a web developer and IT Manager. Since then, he has helped dozens of niche organizations develop sophisticated web-based database systems, including e-commerce and CRM applications. In 2008, he teamed up with a local farmer and bakery owner to create Eugene Local Foods, an online aggregator of local produce for Eugene, OR. Doug first wrote Local Food Marketplace technology to run Eugene Local Foods. Based on the success of Eugene Local Foods, Local Food Marketplace was born. Doug is Local Food Marketplace’s CTO, utilizing his diverse web-based dat