Case Study

How Locavore are using the Open Food Network

Locavore is a social enterprise retailer, grower and wholesaler running a grocery store on Nithsdale Road, Glasgow, delivering veg boxes across west-central Scotland and growing their own produce on urban plots and a market garden.  Locavore also run various projects to get people more involved in building a better kind of food system.

Reuben Chesters, founder of Locavore set up a shopfront on the Open Food Network and has gradually been increasing his use of the Open Food Network functionality.  Initially he offered only produce grown on his own land and stock bought in from wholesalers but he has gradually been adding in produce from neighbouring farmers, growers and other local food and drink processors who are registered as producers on Open Food Network. 

Reuben has chosen to set up the Locavore shopfront as ‘login only’ rather than ‘public’.  This means that he can choose to make the shopfront open only to his veg box customers. Once you are a veg box customer you are added as a customer to the Open Food Network shopfront and are able to order additional items to be delivered with your veg each week.