Feb 14, 2022 | Data Interoperability, News, Projects
A new two-year Food Data Collaboration project funded by The National Lottery Community Fund, the largest funder of community activity in the UK, is starting in March 2022. Project Coordinator Sophie Paterson explains what’s planned, who’s involved and why it’s...
Dec 2, 2021 | Business Models, News, Thriving Food Hubs
In this series of guest blogs Lynne Davis, from the Open Food Network, introduces some of the food hubs and producers in their community. Here, in the fifth blog of the series, Lynne introduces Stroudco Food Hub. Stroudco is one of the pioneers of the food hub model...
Oct 7, 2021 | Business Models, News, Thriving Food Hubs
In this series of blogs, Lynne Davis from the Open Food Network, describes the business models of some of the food hubs and producers in their community. Here, in the fourth blog of the series, Lynne introduces Cockermouth Country Market. Cockermouth Country Market is...
Aug 19, 2021 | Business Models, News
In this series of blogs, Lynne Davis, CEO of the Open Food Network, describes the business models of some of the food hubs and producers in their community. Here, in the third blog of the series, she introduces Sole of Discretion. Sole of Discretion is a radically...
Aug 12, 2021 | Business Models, News, Thriving Food Hubs
In this series of blogs, Lynne Davis, CEO of the Open Food Network, describes the business models of some of the food hubs and producers in their community. Here, in the second blog of the series, Lynne introduces Bowhouse Link. Bowhouse, based in the East Neuk of...
Mar 5, 2021 | News, Resource
Online food retail has exploded in response to COVID-19. This shift to online represents a huge opportunity to transform sales and logistics so that agroecological farming can regenerate our world. In this article I explore technical infrastructure that can support a...
Feb 24, 2021 | Food Equality, News
In our Building Food Equality project, OFN UK are working to demonstrate the important role that community food enterprises play in addressing systemic inequality in our food system. In this blog Lynne Davis gives a background to the work. High quality food is often...
