Building better food and farming systems

Open Food Network Canada supports fair, local, and sustainable food and farming systems through software solutions, resources, and community partnerships

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Local food software for everyone

The Open Food Network platform is full-featured, online marketplace software for farmers, food producers, and community hubs that removes the barrier to entry in the marketplace found in commercial software.

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Grow and sell what you want, how you want

Easy to use online shops, with one producer or many, for any device, in any language
Aggregation, reporting, and inventory management in a powerful admin dashboard
Setup and customer pricing that suits your business and scales up when you’re ready
Community-powered, people-centered and affordable

Who we are

Purpose Driven

Open Food Network Canada is an incorporated, not for profit organization. For the past 10 years, we have supported farms, artisans, and community organizations to connect and scale, in order to increase access to food and flowers produced in ethical and climate-beneficial ways.

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Our Team

Our small but mighty team is made up of farmers, researchers, market organizers, and local food enthusiasts who are dedicated to our cause.

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Our Mission

It’s time to re-imagine a more nourishing and regenerative world. Find out how our mission, vision and values define our work.

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Our Global Community

From Australia to France to Katuma, communities around the world are using and contributing to Open Food Network’s software commons.

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What we’re working on

Projects and programs

We work on outreach projects, research, resource development, and community partnerships to support positive change in food and farming systems. These are some of our current and recent initiatives.

Grazing Lands Carbon Data Initiative

This new initiative is designed to strengthen the data foundations of regenerative ranching, creating a multistakeholder trust alliance and shared data space to federate soil and grazing management data across U.S. grazing lands.

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Open Flower Network

We’re helping women and gender diverse farmers connect, scale and succeed in the rapidly growing specialty cut flower sector through mentoring, skill-building, and knowledge-sharing opportunities.

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Open Agricultural Technology

We’re working with partners around the world to move our industry towards an ecosystem of open technology where users have control of their own data.

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Waterloo Region Food Directory

In September 2024, we launched WaterlooRegionFood.ca, a free online directory designed to connect the community with local farms, markets, and food organizations.

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Sustainable Cut Flowers – Greenbelt

This recent initiative has helped local flower farms thrive by improving market access, strengthening supply chains, and promoting sustainable flowers grown in Ontario’s Greenbelt region.

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