Apr 14, 2025 | News, Procurement, Projects
Continuing our series of hub visits as part of the Procurement For Good project, we travelled to London to visit the Better Food Shed, a thriving sustainable food procurement hub In March, the Procurement For Good project team travelled to London to visit project...
Mar 28, 2025 | News, Projects, Story
We are very pleased that The Flower Grower Collective (FGC) has been awarded funding through the prestigious Farming Innovation Programme. This exciting research project – co-funded by Innovate UK and Defra – is being led by flower farmers Zanna Hoskins...
Jan 20, 2025 | News, Story
The Open Food Network is now an ambassador for the EU Proximity and Social Economy Platform! Diesis is a global network of social entrepreneurs supporting the development of the social economy, social entrepreneurship and social innovation. The Network aims to...
Jan 4, 2025 | Ambassadors, Governance, News
We are very pleased to welcome Manda Scott as an ambassador. This is what she said about the OFN: “You’re being the change we need to see. At a core level, we need total systemic change and shifting our food/farming system to something based in...
Dec 11, 2024 | News, Procurement, Projects
We are extremely excited to announce that we have started work on the Procurement For Good (P4G) project as of the beginning of October 2024. Procurement for Good (P4G) is a £1.9m research project led by Coventry University’s Centre for Agroecology, Water and...
Jan 18, 2024 | News, Story
There were more than 500 nominations for this award from all over Europe. Open Food Network Europe gets the prize in the section about social economy initiatives operating in the digital economy or with an important focus on technological innovation and/or working in...
Jul 24, 2023 | News, Procurement, Projects
English Dros y flwyddyn ddiwethaf, mae’r Open Food Network UK wedi bod yn gweithio ar gynllun peilot arloesol i ddangos dichonoldeb cyflenwi bwyd lleol ar blât cyhoeddus Cymru. Gan weithio gyda phartneriaid o Ffermydd a Gerddi Cymdeithasol, Cultivate, Cymdeithas...
Jun 29, 2023 | News, Procurement, Projects
Cymraeg Over the past year, the Open Food Network (OFN) has been working on a groundbreaking pilot to demonstrate the feasibility of supplying local food onto the Welsh public plate. Working with partners from Social Farms & Gardens, Cultivate, Development Trusts...
Dec 14, 2022 | Governance, News, Story
Time to connect Let’s try to picture the mycelium, billions of intricate connections building nature’s very own communication network. This, for us, is what we see the Open Food Network becoming. A network that connects people to each other to help build...
Sep 26, 2022 | Events, News, Story
This summer, we went to the glorious Shambala Festival. There, we hosted The Community Garden. Over 3 days, we hosted 9 mini events including workshops on non-hierarchical working, open table discussions and activist networking sessions. And of course we enjoyed the...
