July 2023: It Takes a Village

It Takes a Village

As humans we all try to find a balance between the desire for solitude and community. Farming can sometimes be a very lonely endeavor. This month we are introducing a new feature to make managing your farm stand a little less lonely: Stand Managers! 👨‍🌾 Continue reading to find out more.

From my garden: At the beginning of July I noticed some of my tomatoes’ leaves were yellow. I purchased some fertilizer and that seems to have done the trick! Healthy tomatoes for the win!

I have eaten the first tomatoes of the season! Eating food grown near you is a wonderful feeling and one that I wish more people were able to experience. It is one of the reasons why I created Zero Mile Labs. Here some pictures of my garden in July:

This month we decided to focus on a big feature coming to CropStand in version 0.20: Stand Managers!

Sometimes there are just too many things to think about: should I add more fertilizer to my tomatoes? What should I plant next? How will I sell this? When did I pick those zucchini that I put out on the stand? CropStand is designed to take care of a lot of those things automatically, even if it won’t water the garden for you. Despite all the ways CropStand can help, sometimes we cannot find the time to add the produce we just picked to the app. Now there is an easy way for you to get more help: enter Stand Managers!

With Stand Managers, you can allow other CropStand users to manage your stand. Once they are added, they will be able to select your stand in the main screen, add and remove produce, as well as open and close the stand for the season. You could ask a partner, friend, or neighbor to help you manage your stand: they could simply update CropStand whenever they stop by and notice that something is missing or has been added recently. ‼️

We hope that you’ll like Stand Managers and that it will be able to share some of management burden as needed.

We also made it easier to contact support by adding a link in the profile screen.

Don’t have a stand yet? Download the app from here and create an account in 1 minute!

Creating your stand is free; you pay only for the produce purchased through the app. In other words: either CropStand makes you money or it’s free. Regardless, you won’t have to pony up a single cent. …

Marco

Owner, Zero Mile Labs llc