Is Wexford ready for Open Food Network?
Over the last 4 months people from different co-ops, CSAs (Community-supported Agriculture) and Transition Towns have been making progress with the setting up the Open Food Network in Ireland. OFN is a virtual market platform for local producers, farmers, CSAs, food coops, markets and communities.
There is strong interest in Wexford town in the concept of food networks which bring local/regional producers of organic and chemical-free produce together with local communities. Redmond Park is presently under consideration as a potential location for a once-weekly meeting point.
Open Food Network is a community-owned software platform for selling food. It can be either a shopfront for individual enterprises or a community hub of farmers and other local producers working together. OFN is currently operating in 9 countries, with 1000’s of local producers using it to reach markets to sell their products and support their local food economies in these difficult times.
On Wednesday 29th July 2020 I 20.00 - 21.30 there is a webinar to introduce the platform. This free webinar will be held on Zoom. Places are limited, to register send an email to ofnireland@gmail.com.
