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 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...
Jun 28, 2023 | COVID, Story
Natalie Neumann and Rosalind Sharpe from the Food Research Collaboration have created a Food Research Collaboration Discussion Paper titled “Sustainable food hubs and food system resilience: Plugging gaps or forging the way ahead?” This is the last report in the Food...
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...
Aug 5, 2021 | Business Models, Story, 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 first blog of the series, Lynne introduces Tamar Valley Food Hub. Tamar Valley Food Hub is an...
