About ChopLocal
Hi, thanks for visiting!
We created ChopLocal in 2020 with one mission: make it easier to buy and sell local meat.
There are 130,000 direct-to-consumer livestock farmers in the US, and less than 10% of them have a website with an online store.
But an online store (with shipping) can DOUBLE farmers sales!
Ecommerce can be intimidating. Farmers (and small butcher shops) need someone experienced to guide them through the process of setting up an online store, optimizing it for sales, and shipping their meat.
And that's where we come in.
We're farmers (and now, ecommerce experts!) who are using our professional skills and meat processing experience to help niche meat businesses across the country:
- reach new customers.
- ship frozen meat.
- sell more and profit more!
Why ChopLocal?
We know there are other companies out there who offer software platforms for farmers and teach courses on marketing.
Here's how we're different:
- We're farmers and small business owners, not venture-backed software execs with aggressive sales teams and expensive software developers.
- We run our business the same way you run yours: with efficiency, hard-work, and common sense.
- We understand your way of life because we live it everyday. Our founding team lives and works on our family farms.
- We're dedicated to helping you succeed. Whether you're taking our online courses or selling meat via our platform, we'll do what it takes to help you be successful - guaranteed.
- We built the ChopLocal marketplace to be easy for YOU to use AND easy for your customers. (So many of our competitors seem to have ignored the customer user experience and it shows!)
- We bring NEW CUSTOMERS to our ChopLocal vendors through our marketing.
Meet The Team
We're farmers, eager to use our professional skills to help YOU sell more meat!
Jared Achen
Founder & CEO
Katie Olthoff
Founder & COO
Sydney Hadacek
Producer Support Specialist