Check out some of the webinars our team has been involved with!

EFAO Digital Farm Gate Sales

February 26, 2021
1 hour 20 minutes

The decision to bring your farm store online can be confusing and time consuming.  Ultimately, choosing the best platform depends on your needs and circumstances. In this Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario webinar, Theresa Schumilas – a sustainable flower farmer, academic, and founder of Open Food Network Canada – discusses how digital sales platforms are being used in the farm to fork space. Theresa shares an overview of the different options on the market, and provides a practical decision making framework for farmers and producers to use when choosing their ecommerce tools. This webinar discusses practical considerations such as your business model, your future plans, support needs, security, and costs should weigh into your ecommerce decisions.

A great introductory webinar for those who are considering or already recognize the need to go online and need help with the next step!

Supporting Farmer Livelihoods: Research Partnerships for Action Webinar

January 27, 2021
1 hour 30 minutes

“In this webinar, sustainable food system practitioners, experts, and researchers explore the possibilities of policy dialogues, digital retail spaces, and ecological production for farmers in Canada. Panelists present their research findings and recommendations from three projects including: (1) Lessons learned from a community partnership on the future of farming in Hastings County in Eastern Ontario; (2) Data on how digital technologies are changing the way that farmers engage in markets across the country; and (3) Insights collected at a field school on the future of agroecology in Canada. Panelists discuss the process of community research partnerships, offer policy recommendations relevant to small-scale farmers, and explore how their work is scalable and/or replicable in other contexts. Discussant Bess Legault from the National Farmers Union provides insights on how research can support farmer livelihoods in Canada.” 

Opening Up Food Data

March 9, 2021
1 hour 30 minutes

This webinar discusses how Open Data Standards can support the growth of thriving local food systems.  With official responses from food systems scholars Sarah Rotz and Irena Knezevic, Rachel Arnould and Clémentine Triballeau of Open Food Network France discuss their work leading the Data Food Consortium (DFC) — a multi-stakeholder initiative that brings tech platforms together to spearhead a new future for food tech, one based on the premise that cooperation between foodtech providers can play a key role in supporting farmer livelihoods and catalyzing the growth of thriving and sustainable local food systems.