Specialty Cut Flower Farming in Canada Canada’s specialty cut flower sector is booming, led by women and gender diverse farmers. Our research indicates that this set of relatively small-scale, new farmers boasts gross sales that account for as much as one-quarter of...
Interoperability in the Digital Farmgate Sector, Part 2: Field research report Data interoperability is a technical way of describing the ability for several IT systems or platforms to communicate with each other and use information exchanged. It’s what lets you...
Interoperability in the Digital Farmgate Sector, Part 1: Overview The vast majority of food that is produced and eaten in Canada travels supply chains that are both complex and highly centralised, beginning with large-scale industrial agriculture and ending in a few...
Creating solutions for and with community food initiatives Last month we wrapped up an important planning initiative. Our goal: to reimagine our organization’s mission in the aftermath of the pandemic, and develop new community programming and software solutions to...
Digital Marketing Project Report: Results and Next Steps One of our major projects in 2022 was an initiative to help farmers improve their digital marketing, on our platform and beyond it. It was rewarding and informative to have many of our customers, as well as...
Research report: Tech-Enabling On-line Food Distribution This evaluation documents how, with support from the Ontario Trillium Foundation, Open Food Network Canada (OFN) used the Design Thinking process to tech-enable food and farming entrepreneurship in...
