Building local food hubs

Practical and community elements of short supply chains

The pandemic has brought a new focus on local food as usual supply chains struggled, and both producers and consumers expressed a desire to create a different model.

Listen to or watch this Soil Association Scotland online discussion with Rosie Jack of Bowhouse local food market in Fife and Nick Weir of the Open Food Network, about:

• How things have changed across the country through the Open Food Network lens
• Lessons learnt about routes to market for small and big producers
• The Bowhouse experience
• The Open Food Network:
  • What the customer sees
  • The platform back-end: products, price, management fees, order cycles, selling through different hubs, distribution options, reports, subscriptions; and Bowhouse’s experience using it
  • Different pricing models
  • Community forums
  • How to network: finding nearby hubs and producers
• Future steps for Bowhouse and OFN