[P2P-F] Fwd: Regen Ag knowledge commons launched, collaborative logistics pilot project, Victorian producers - we need your produce!

Fri Nov 20 09:29:54 CET 2020

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Open Food Network Australia <hello at openfoodnetwork.org.au>
Date: Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 5:50 AM
Subject: Regen Ag knowledge commons launched, collaborative logistics pilot
project, Victorian producers - we need your produce!
To: <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>

Resources and activities to build a better food system.
View this email in your browser
<https://mailchi.mp/ef2090724a48/regen-ag-knowledge-commons-launched-collaborative-logistics-pilot-project-victorian-producers-we-need-your-produce?e=dcef30293f>

Open Food Network exists to power fair and transparent supply networks that
reconnect communities and regenerate the earth.

Sometimes it's easier to see the work we're doing in just one part of this
system, but as you read through this month's newsletter we hope you get a
sense of the many ways we're reimagining food systems, supporting people
with the resources and guidance needed, and working hard to power new
possibilities.

Read on for the launch of Australia's first ever database of the evidence
supporting regenerative agriculture, new collaborative logistics projects,
and more.
*New regenerative agriculture resources*

*The solutions are at hand for agriculture to become a driving force in the
regeneration of landscapes, waterways and biodiversity, while sequestering
carbon and actively reversing climate change.*

There are many good reasons to support regenerative agriculture but the
most significant is as a response to the climate emergency. The food system
contributes up to 37% of TOTAL greenhouse emissions.

At Open Food Network we are actively working to support wide-scale uptake
of regenerative agriculture including the major land-use levers to mitigate
climate change.

Open Food Network also works on a key enabler of regenerative
agriculture: values-based supply networks. When farmers receive a fair
price for food, they have more opportunity to shift practices and undertake
regenerative methods.

*New resource launched!*
We have started creating a knowledge commons of resources that provide a
mix of research about regenerative agriculture and the systems that enable
it, stories from regenerative farmers, and more.

This includes the first open database drawing together peer-reviewed
evidence underpinning regenerative agriculture and its uptake.
Access resources
<https://openfoodnetwork.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6752bbf142dc0ebe3b69c4473&id=4fe660e2fc&e=dcef30293f>
*Open Road: a collaborative logistics project in Victoria*

Open Food Network and a number of partners are currently scoping a pilot
project for a short supply chain logistics service for Victorian producers
called Open Road. We have some seed funding but the scope and location of
the pilot will depend on securing further funds and also on active
collaboration from regional hubs and producers in the Hume, Western/Central
and Gippsland regions of Victoria.

We are planning a webinar in each of these three regions in the coming
months. If you'd like to attend the webinar to learn more about this
project or to get involved as a producer, regional hub or partner, then
please contact Georgia Savage.
Email Georgia
<georgia at openfoodnetwork.org.au?subject=Open%20Road%20expression%20of%20interest>

Make sure that you register for our next webinar with Hepburn Shire,
looking at Collaborative Logistics: How to start working with other farmers
to reach customers.
Register here
<https://openfoodnetwork.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6752bbf142dc0ebe3b69c4473&id=e8e5af41ae&e=dcef30293f>
*Open Food Network Connect*

We now have a dedicated brokering service that helps to connect producers
with supply and community food enterprises with demand!

*WE HAVE DEMAND!*
This month, we have a community food enterprise in Melbourne looking for
the following Victorian-grown produce to be delivered every day, Monday to
Friday:
Potatoes: 100 kgs
Onions: 100 kgs
Carrots: 100 kgs
Apples: 140kgs
Oranges: 160 kgs
Green vegetables (bock-you, choysum, spinach): 150 bunches
Tomatoes: 110 kg

If you're a Victorian producer who could supply one or more produce lines
please get in touch! Orders and delivery times are flexible and open to
discussion.
Contact us now! <georgia at openfoodnetwork.org.au>
*Learning about food systems*

Listen to Open Food Network’s Kirsten Larsen and Serenity Hill
talk systemic change on the *Futuresteading Podcast*
<https://openfoodnetwork.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6752bbf142dc0ebe3b69c4473&id=c05243b186&e=dcef30293f>

*Nutrition Society of Australia webinar: Fair and Resilient Food Systems*.
Kirsten helped explore how Australia’s food systems have changed over time,
what we can learn from history, and how nutritionists and consumers can
support a fair and resilient food system.

Watch the recording of Hepburn Shire's *Farmers and Foodies together
webinar* hosted by Open Food Network's Jen Sheridan and Renata Cumming here
<https://openfoodnetwork.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6752bbf142dc0ebe3b69c4473&id=10e02d677c&e=dcef30293f>
and view the slides here
<https://openfoodnetwork.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6752bbf142dc0ebe3b69c4473&id=7712a08717&e=dcef30293f>
.

Warrenbayne Farm Collective and Open Food Network featured in the Royal
Society of Victoria and Soil Science Australia's webinar *Soil Carbon:
Climate Solutions Right Under Our Feet*. View the slides here
<https://openfoodnetwork.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6752bbf142dc0ebe3b69c4473&id=b5e2ed34f0&e=dcef30293f>
.
*Software Updates*

*NEW LOOK SHOPFRONT!*
We sent a special software release email last month to let account holders
know changes were coming to improve the appearance of shopfronts and to
make it easier for shoppers to add products to their cart. Click below to
get all the detail on these exciting updates.
Read Software Newsletter
<https://openfoodnetwork.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6752bbf142dc0ebe3b69c4473&id=902801fa1d&e=dcef30293f>
*New team members!*

Meet our new team member, Renata Cumming. Renata grew up in Melbourne and
spent weekends and holidays on her uncle and aunt's farm in North East
Victoria which led to her love of farming and influenced her decision to
study Agriculture at the University of Melbourne, Dookie Campus, and a
diverse career in Agriculture.

She has always had a strong desire to help people understand how food is
produced and encourage them to make better informed decisions that support
Australian Agriculture, reduce food miles and make the most of regional and
seasonal produce.

Along with Shirley Saywell, she is a co-founder of Strathbogie Local; a
volunteer run 'click and collect' online farmers market that was set up at
the start of the Covid restrictions to support farmers who had lost their
primary source of revenue with the closure of restaurants and farmers
markets and link them to customers who wanted access to high quality local
produce.
*Open Food Network Global*
One of the most rewarding things about our open source global model is that
anyone can start a new Open Food Network instance where they are in the
world, and shape it around their local needs. In this month's global
meeting we met the founders of Open Food Network Guatemala, who are using
the platform to support Indigenous food sovereignty.

We also shared the excitement of Open Food Network Colombia as they started
accepting their first sales through the platform. Their enthusiasm is
infectious, and a reminder of how amazing it is to build a new community of
eaters and farmers from the ground up.

But the best part is the sense of an ever-growing community of people all
contributing to the same shared infrastructure and vision of a better food
system. All of the work done so far, and support from people like you as
our community members, have kept building an awesome open source platform
that new countries can pick up, start using, and start contributing to.
Thank you for being part of the global Open Food Network community!
*In other news*

*Young Farmers Connect*
There are three awesome Young Farmers Connect
<https://openfoodnetwork.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6752bbf142dc0ebe3b69c4473&id=8b229305d2&e=dcef30293f>
events
coming up.

Monday 23 November: Australia wide - hosted by
Young Farmers Connect (YFC) - Melbourne
<https://openfoodnetwork.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6752bbf142dc0ebe3b69c4473&id=e6d0469b56&e=dcef30293f>
Virtual Hangout with Jason Cotter from Tuerong Farm about heritage grain
varieties, the role of small-scale cereal production and local milling, and
how to include grains on your farm.

Saturday 29 November: YFC Young Farmer's Connect - Mid-Coast
<https://openfoodnetwork.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6752bbf142dc0ebe3b69c4473&id=dbab057687&e=dcef30293f>
Field day at Old Road Inn Vinyard

Saturday 5 December: Young Farmers Connect (YFC) - Northern Rivers
<https://openfoodnetwork.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6752bbf142dc0ebe3b69c4473&id=1fc904e221&e=dcef30293f>
Field day at Hungry Earth Agroecology

*Sustain and Vermont Farm to Plate*
Learn from the Vermont Farm to Plate team about how their initiative has
created change.
Vermont Farm to Plate - Planning for Sustainable and Secure Food and
Farming Systems
<https://openfoodnetwork.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6752bbf142dc0ebe3b69c4473&id=0692c5579d&e=dcef30293f>
Three weekly webinars: 2, 9 & 16 December

*Vote for Open Food Network* in the *People's Choice Awards*, part of
the Victorian Regional Achievement and Community Awards. You can vote once
every day until the poll closes. The winner will be announced at an awards
presentation on Friday 4 December.
Vote here
<https://openfoodnetwork.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6752bbf142dc0ebe3b69c4473&id=41c394c4a1&e=dcef30293f>
Join our team for the *First Nations Bedtime Stories Challenge*. Staff at
Open Food Network have joined this challenge to support First Nations
communities to document stories woven from their regenerative cultures and
to share these stories with our communities.

>From November 16-20, 2020 one film will be published on the dashboard of
First Nations Bedtime Stories Challenge website each day by 8am AEST. You
and your family can watch the story at any time from that day onwards. You
can also donate to support Common Ground, an Aboriginal-led not-for-profit,
continue creating resources that celebrate First Nations people.

Each video shares a Dreaming story told by First Nations knowledge
custodians from Central Australia. These videos have just been created and
have never been seen before outside the communities they come from.
Join our team
<https://openfoodnetwork.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6752bbf142dc0ebe3b69c4473&id=a72a780be2&e=dcef30293f>
*Support us*

Our software and services are delivered and funded through contributions
from community members, a huge amount of volunteer contributions, some
funding, and cross-subsidisation from our research and consulting work.

If you are excited by the work we're currently doing, we would love it if
you would consider a regular or one-off donation. Sustainable Table are
kindly auspicing donations to Open Food Network so that your donation is
tax deductible.
Make a donation
<https://openfoodnetwork.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6752bbf142dc0ebe3b69c4473&id=960e6d0d02&e=dcef30293f>
As always, get in touch <hello at openfoodnetwork.org.au> if you'd like to
learn more about the Open Food Network, or work together on a project
<https://openfoodnetwork.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6752bbf142dc0ebe3b69c4473&id=307759c6b3&e=dcef30293f>
.

Cheers,
The Open Food Network Australia team
<https://openfoodnetwork.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6752bbf142dc0ebe3b69c4473&id=9400dfc1c2&e=dcef30293f>
[image: Facebook]
<https://openfoodnetwork.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6752bbf142dc0ebe3b69c4473&id=179cedb535&e=dcef30293f>
[image: Instagram]
<https://openfoodnetwork.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6752bbf142dc0ebe3b69c4473&id=0c575bc41f&e=dcef30293f>
[image: Twitter]
<https://openfoodnetwork.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6752bbf142dc0ebe3b69c4473&id=813efa625e&e=dcef30293f>
[image: LinkedIn]
<https://openfoodnetwork.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6752bbf142dc0ebe3b69c4473&id=a5445f0a1d&e=dcef30293f>
[image: Website]
<https://openfoodnetwork.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6752bbf142dc0ebe3b69c4473&id=393f818165&e=dcef30293f>
[image: Email] <hello at openfoodnetwork.org.au>
[image: GitHub]
<https://openfoodnetwork.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6752bbf142dc0ebe3b69c4473&id=b8f4b282b4&e=dcef30293f>
*Copyright © 2020 Open Food Network, All rights reserved.*
Want to change how you receive these emails?
You can update your preferences
<https://openfoodnetwork.us13.list-manage.com/profile?u=6752bbf142dc0ebe3b69c4473&id=9074f025e3&e=dcef30293f>
or unsubscribe from this list
<https://openfoodnetwork.us13.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=6752bbf142dc0ebe3b69c4473&id=9074f025e3&e=dcef30293f&c=6e044fcbd7>

-- 
P2P Foundation: http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net <http://p2pfoundation.net>  -
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net

Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation

Updates: ; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

Curation of news on p2p/commons developments:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/p2p.open/
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ourproject.org/pipermail/p2p-foundation/attachments/20201120/2fc1e5dd/attachment-0001.html>