We provide sales support for food hubs
We know small farms and food hubs are overworked and underpaid, and we broker sales to sometimes tricky, slow-moving wholesale institutional accounts so you don't have to. As a team, we'll increase your efficiency and profitability to help you stabilize your food business and support your regional farmers even more.
We connect you to advocates
Kitchen Sync has strong relationships with national nonprofits and movements who support farm-to-institution work. We leverage those networks to find more buyers, generate new leads, and attract larger institutional buyers who understand your value as an aggregator of regional farm products.
We develop regional value chains and market your food
Because we know what institutional buyers want and we have relationships with processors, we can work with you to identify 'opportunity products' that increase your sales, expand your value proposition, and bring prosperity to your small farms.
Who we work with
Kitchen Sync brokers sales for the NW Food Hub Network
We sell the products of cooperatively-owned sustainable food hubs across the Pacific NW, and since we brought over $3.7m in new net sales to these food hub businesses. We focus on sales to institutions like K-12 schools, hospitals, and universities from coastal Washington to Central Montana.
Kitchen Sync brokers sales for the Iowa Food Hub Network to bring local food to regional institutions
We are proud to support the evolution of Iowa's Food Hub Manager's Working Group and their 4 wholesale-ready food hubs. Our team helps the hubs complete new sales while also helping them build internal sales systems that last. We're accelerating this Network's growth through targeted, right-sized institutional sales.
Kitchen Sync supports Oregon food hubs to sell regionally sourced food to Oregon institutions
Upon launching the Oregon Farm to Institution Collaborative, we continue supporting 3 Oregon food hubs (Gorge Farmers Collective, Lane County Bounty, & Agricultural Connections) to bring local products and value-added foods to institutions across the state. In a few short months, we've already attracted 12+ new institutions statewide.
What our clients say
"As a bootstrap food hub, the support and capacity KSS offers with entering institutional markets is invaluable. A lovely team, keeps it real, and has your back. I've found you don't have to recreate the wheel, just contract with professionals like the team with KSS."
—Kiara at the Gorge Farmers Collective, Hood River, OR
"Just so you know, we are blown away and very impressed with what you have provided us; THANK YOU! Really, we have worked with a lot of "consultants' and cannot say enough as to how much we value what you have done for us. Heavy applause !!! AND Encore! Encore!“
—Michelle at Field to Family,
Iowa City, IA
Let's Get Started
We are eager to connect and help you bring fresh, healthy food to your customers. Reach out today to start a conversation and let's see what we can cook up!