Celebrating a decade of Tamar Valley Food Hubs and The Tree on the Open Food Network UK

Dec 30, 2025 | News

2025 marked a whole decade of not one but two fabulous shopfronts here on the Open Food Network UK. Congratulations go to both Tamar Valley Food Hubs and The Tree – St Andrews for a whole ten years as part of the Open Food Network UK family. Here we share a little more about them and reflections on the past ten years growing their local food communities.

Tamar Valley Food Hubs

Based in Callington, Cornwall,

Tamar Valley Food Hubs is a not-for-profit online farmers’ market bringing together the best of local and seasonal produce in one place. Similar to a veg box scheme and online supermarket, they deliver the best of seasonal Tamar Valley produce to homes, workplaces and collection points across the valley each week. By shopping with them, customers are directly supporting independent growers, local businesses and community projects as well as co-operatives worldwide.

The Tree – Transition St Andrews

The Tree is a student-led cooperative food hub selling local, organic and affordable food, cleaning supplies and other goods in St Andrews. It connects local consumers to local producers and wholefood suppliers. As an alternative to a supermarket store, The Tree forms part of a local resilient food network serving the whole St Andrews community. Their aim is to provide a transparent and not for profit service, with customers able to see a full breakdown of costs and overheads at the point of purchase.

Reflections from Tamar Valley Food Hubs

So what does it mean to be part of the Open Food Network UK for a whole decade? We spoke to Claire Morgan at Tamar Valley Food Hubs to ask just that.

Being part of an adaptable platform that shares our values is really important to Tamar Valley Food Hubs. Over the past 10 years of running our online farmers’ market on the Open Food Network we’ve seen the platform continually evolve, helping us navigate the pandemic, economic shocks, changes to legislation and the growth of our business too.  

We get to benefit from a UK-wide support team and peer network, as well as developments to the platform supported by the Open Food Network and platform users around the world. So while we focus on growing and supporting our own local food network, we can also be part of a global movement helping to bring better access, equity and independence to our food systems.

Claire Morgan

Tamar Valley Food Hubs

With thanks to Tamar Valley Food Hubs for sharing photos through time, with credit to The University of Plymouth (left) and Kathy Lovall (right).

We look forward to continuing to support Tamar Valley Food Hubs, The Tree and all of our fantastic food producers, hubs, collectives and more across the Open Food Network UK into 2026 and beyond.