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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.
Technology Update from the Global OFN Team
Read about major upgrades to the performance of Open Food Network and the underlying systems to make our platform secure and resilient.
Thanks for partnering with us in the local food movement
A welcome to our new customers and a look at what our growth means for our vision of an equitable and sustainable local food system.
Keeping Fair Food System Running during COVID-19
COVID-19 is already having an impact on food supply. How do we support direct supply chains that keep farmers in business? How do we keep our shelves stocked with food? What happens to farmers’ markets as public gatherings get shut down?
Welcome to a faster, more efficient Open Food Network
Major platform update rolled out worldwide Over the years we’ve been running Open Food Network we’ve been working tirelessly to build the tools that food enterprises need to succeed. With our tiny, part time development team working remotely in the UK, Australia,...
Olivier De Schutter welcomed as newest ambassador
“For me, the Open Food Network is an essential tool because it enables the different eaters of a given territory or community to connect and build initiatives together.” – Olivier De Schutter We’re thrilled to welcome Olivier De Schutter as our newest Open Food...
Can Food Hubs Help Stop Climate Change?
Open Food Network are teaming up with researchers at the University of East Anglia as part of a nationwide study to explore how food hubs like ours contribute to a lower carbon food system. The research will seek to understand the food shopping patterns of people who...
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