Mar 20, 2024 | Story, Wheel of The Year
Can you hear the birds chirping outside your window? This is the sound of Spring! The days are getting longer – finally! We will soon be leaving the dark half of the year and embracing the early spring rays of the Sun! Soon, it will be time to celebrate the...
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...
Oct 27, 2022 | Story, Wheel of The Year
Samhain, Halloween, Wicca: connecting with the seasons: Can you feel the air getting crisper? We have entered the darker half of the year at Equinox. All the harvests are in and nature is preparing for shorter and colder days. The trees are starting to put on their...
Sep 26, 2022 | Events, News, Projects, Story, Uncategorized
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...
Jun 17, 2022 | Story, Wheel of The Year
Midsummer, Summer Solstice: Connecting with the seasons: Introduction to the collection Welcome to the wheel of the year collection. A series of blogs on the solstices and equinoxes that punctuate our lives, seasons, and farming practices. The Wheel of the Year is a...
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...
Jun 8, 2021 | Food Equality, Story
In this blog, Cobi Akinrele suggests that it is the imagining of poverty as something which affects ‘others’, that has contributed to much of the inertia to food justice in Britain. “Feed the World! Let them know it’s Christmas again”. These are the famous Band...
Jun 26, 2019 | News, Story
In the last 12-18 months the devastating consequences of single-use plastic pollution has come to the forefront of public debate and made many of us question our shopping and lifestyle habits. Many attribute the heart breaking scenes of plastic packaging found in...
