Locallygrown
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From Survival to Sustainability: The Next 20 Years for LocallyGrown.net
Part 6 of LocallyGrown.net: The 23-Year Journey
Sep 29, 2025 - 12 min read
Six weeks after the rebuild, the crisis is over. Here’s the focused roadmap—EBT access, delivery tools, and quiet reliability—for community-run, multi-grower markets.
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Lessons from the Solo Developer Using Modern Tools
Part 5 of LocallyGrown.net: The 23-Year Journey
Sep 22, 2025 - 31 min read
How I used code-aware tools to multiply my reach (tests, docs, audits) while keeping humans in charge of architecture, business logic, and quality.
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The Reality of Production: When Hope Meets Live Users
Part 4 of LocallyGrown.net: The 23-Year Journey
Sep 17, 2025 - 15 min read
Launching with 3,000 passing tests still led to two weeks of production bugs—fees, permissions, Stripe, email, and a thousand cuts. How I triaged 314 fixes, kept markets running, and what I’d change next time.
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The Architecture Challenge: Translating 19 Years of Rails Logic to Modern SvelteKit
Part 3 of LocallyGrown.net: The 23-Year Journey
Sep 15, 2025 - 23 min read
How I translated a 19-year Rails monolith to SvelteKit—TypeScript services, Drizzle, subdomain multitenancy, role-based auth, secure theming — without downtime.
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The 23-Year Rescue Mission: Saving Agricultural Innovation from Technical Extinction
Part 2 of LocallyGrown.net: The 23-Year Journey
Sep 9, 2025 - 13 min read
By 2025, LocallyGrown.net faced extinction on Rails 3. The story of constant firefighting, failed upgrades, and the impossible choice to rebuild or die.
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From Accidental Discovery to Agricultural Infrastructure: Building the World's First Online Farmers Market (2002-2011)
Part 1 of LocallyGrown.net: The 23-Year Journey
Sep 8, 2025 - 14 min read
The origin story of LocallyGrown.net - from failed cooperative to pioneering agricultural platform serving 100+ markets across North America.
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