Guides

Find a selection of curated guides for Community Food Enterprises on topics including: 
  • Starting and scaling up your enterprise
  • Marketing and business strategy
  • Business skills and knowledge
  • Accounting, finance, legal and governance
  • And much much more

Guides

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How to co-design a food hub with your community

How to co-design a food hub with your community

Strengthening farmer-buyer relationships with governance

Strengthening farmer-buyer relationships with governance

What we learned from running a Collaborative Logistics Scheme

What we learned from running a Collaborative Logistics Scheme

Hepburn: co-designing a food hub

Hepburn: co-designing a food hub

How can we design out on-farm food waste?

How can we design out on-farm food waste?

How to set a fair price

How to set a fair price

Visual marketing tips to improve the way you sell

Visual marketing tips to improve the way you sell

Effective inventory management

Effective inventory management

Making decisions for your food enterprise

Making decisions for your food enterprise

Logistics for Food Enterprises

Logistics for Food Enterprises

How to find grant and funding opportunities

How to find grant and funding opportunities

Simple ways to design and schedule social media posts for free

Simple ways to design and schedule social media posts for free

Foodies and Farmers Together Webinar

Foodies and Farmers Together Webinar

Food System Innovator’s Handbook

Food System Innovator’s Handbook

Agro-ecology & Regenerative Agriculture Knowledge Commons

Agro-ecology & Regenerative Agriculture Knowledge Commons

Simple customer retention strategies

Simple customer retention strategies

Lessons from the South East Food Hub

Lessons from the South East Food Hub

Community Food Enterprises report

Community Food Enterprises report

A guide to scaling up food hubs

A guide to scaling up food hubs

Funding your Community Food Enterprise

Funding your Community Food Enterprise

Resources to help you run a crowdfunding campaign

Resources to help you run a crowdfunding campaign

Understanding Different Types of Grants

Understanding Different Types of Grants

Local Food Cost Calculator

Local Food Cost Calculator

Marketing for community food enterprises

Marketing for community food enterprises

Planning and running open farm days

Planning and running open farm days

How to give interviews to media

How to give interviews to media

Allocating Risk in Community Food Enterprises

Allocating Risk in Community Food Enterprises

Running a Local Food Event to Bring Growers Together

Running a Local Food Event to Bring Growers Together

Food Co-op Initiative Resources

Food Co-op Initiative Resources

Community investment for Australian co-operatives – A Handbook

Community investment for Australian co-operatives – A Handbook

Shared Learning Days

Shared Learning Days

Starting a Food Hub: Successful Hubs Share Their Stories

Starting a Food Hub: Successful Hubs Share Their Stories

Food Solution- A Community Food Enterprise Startup Guide

Food Solution- A Community Food Enterprise Startup Guide

Lean Start-Up

Lean Start-Up

Holistic Management – Strategic Planning for Food/Farming Enterprises

Holistic Management – Strategic Planning for Food/Farming Enterprises

Collaborative marketing: a roadmap and resource guide for farmers

Food Safety Guides

Food Safety Guides

Grow a Grocery

Grow a Grocery

Making Local Food Work: Influencing consumer buying behaviour

Making Local Food Work: Influencing consumer buying behaviour

Financial Literacy for Community Groups

Financial Literacy for Community Groups

Choosing a Legal Structure for your Farm or Food Enterprise

Choosing a Legal Structure for your Farm or Food Enterprise

Healthy Profit: A guide to pricing your farm produce

Healthy Profit: A guide to pricing your farm produce

The DIY Marketing Guide for Community Supported Agriculture

The DIY Marketing Guide for Community Supported Agriculture

Cooperatives in Australia

Cooperatives in Australia

Making Farmers Markets Work: Community

Making Farmers Markets Work: Community

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