Making Local Food Work aims to reconnect people and land through local food by increasing access to fresh, healthy, local food with clear, traceable origins.
The five-year programme of work is exploring community enterprise approaches to connecting land and people through food, and creating the practical tools and support to help make such enterprises thrive.
Information Technology and small-scale food organisations: is IT a nighmare?
This paper aims to share the experience that Sustain has had in working with community-run enterprises that trade in local and sustainable food, to develop Information Technology (IT) systems to support their work.
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A Healthy Profit: A simple guide to pricing the food you make or grow.
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Making Local Food Work reports:
Local Food Links: The first 10 years
Building a Sustainable Food Hub
An investigation into the workings of small scale food hubs
Joining the Dots: Collaborative food distribution for restaurants
The Making Local Food Work programme brings together a consortium of national organisations working to improve the sustainability of community food enterprises such as co-operatively managed farmers’ markets; community owned village shops; country markets; sustainable food hubs; food co-ops and buying groups; and community supported agriculture - all of which bring producers and consumers closer together. Making Local Food Work is co-ordinated by the Plunkett Foundation and funded by the Changing Spaces programme of the Big Lottery.
Sustain is a consortium partner in Making Local Food Work, coordinating two strands of work:
- Food Co-ops and Buying Groups. For more information contact Maresa Bossano: maresa@sustainweb.org.
- Food Supply and Distribution. For more information contact Clare Horrell: clare@sustainweb.org
- In London, both these strands of work are integrated through Suzanne Natelson, as part of the activities of London Food Link, contact: suzanne@sustainweb.org
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