Research Report Strengthening farmer – buyer relationships with governance Working towards whole crop purchasing for zero on-farm food waste Through the Whole Crop Purchasing project, Open Food Network has been facilitating connections between Victorian-based...
Towards a Healthy, Regenerative and Equitable Food System in Victoria: A Consensus Statement The COVID-19 pandemic and recent floods in QLD and NSW have shone a light on just how unprepared our food system is for (un)natural disasters. ‘One in a hundred-year’ floods...
Case Study How Southern Harvest used the Open Food Network to halve their workload during COVID-19 lockdowns. Southern Harvest is a farmer- and member-led organisation that helps local farmers and producers to sell to the local community in the ACT and South East NSW....
Our projects – Open Road What we learned from running a collaborative logistics scheme So much! From March 2021 to June 2022 we conceived and developed the largest collaborative logistics project for the values-based short supply chain sector trialed in...
Our projects Hepburn: co-designing a food hub Food hubs play an important role in local food systems. Food hubs reconnect consumers with local producers by aggregating products from local farms and producers, and distributing to consumers and businesses. This...