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Creating and developing an e-store with OFN
A short list of resources to help farmers and food hubs thrive on OFN, from setting up a store, to marketing your store and building customer loyalty.
Featured Webinars: Online sales, research partnerships and the future of food tech in Canada
Check out some of the webinars our team has been involved with!
– EFAO Digital Farm Gate Sales
– Supporting Farmer Livelihoods: Research Partnerships for Action Webinar
– Opening Up Food Data
Community Spotlight: Flower Farmer Theresa Schumilas
My partner, Peter and I grew organic vegetables for over 30 years. But then we started to learn about how unsustainable and unfair cut flowers can be. Most of the flowers you see are grown and treated with harmful chemicals. Often they are imported long distances from places with unfair labour practices. We wanted to be a part of changing this so we have switched from vegetables to blooms.
Community Spotlight: Palatine Roses
Palatine Roses is a local flower shop from Palatine Hill in Niagara-on-the-Lake. They are active community members producing lovely blooms and providing the community with tips and tools for local growing!
Community Spotlight: Oy’s Joys Bakery
Olivia Yetter, founder of Oy’s Joys bakery, shares the story of how she started her business by selling at farmers’ markets in her neighbourhood in Toronto. The pandemic provided an opportunity to increase production and reach more community members. Read more about Olivia’s vision for her growing bakery.
OFN Online Shop Updates 2020
A number of changes and improvements to the OFN Online Shop have rolled out in 2020. We've decided to provide you a consolidated summary of online shop updates! The list is pretty long, so make sure you click on each item to get the full details. Mobile shopping...
Community Spotlight: St James Town Community CO-OP
We chat with OFN customer St James Town Co-Op, a non-profit, community owned enterprise supporting sustainable development, food security and resilience to climate change.
Research report: Tech-Enabling On-line Food Distribution
As communities and governments attempt to reinforce local food security, digital platforms represent a critical ‘public infrastructure’. Read our research report to learn more.
Staying Informed about Food Justice and the Food Movement
Stay informed about issues that matter to food and agriculture movements with our list of recommended podcasts, news, platforms, and food justice organizations.
Community Spotlight: CULTIVATE Virtual Farmers’ Market
Learn about CULTIVATE, an online Farmers’ Market in the St. Thomas, ON region. In this interview, Vicki Asher, manager of the Ignite Youth Center, tells us about her experience launching and running CULTIVATE with the help of dedicated and hardworking young volunteers from their youth center.
Food, tech and data sovereignty
In this interview for the Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems’ Handpicked podcast, OFN-CAN founder and Managing Director, Theresa Schumilas, explains how digital platforms can contribute to the food sovereignty movement.
Community Spotlight: Bailey’s Local Foods
In the first installment of our user profile series, we catch up with Maryrose Ivanco, co-owner of Bailey’s Local Foods, an online farmers’ market serving the Waterloo region of Ontario.
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