Tips for Local Food #2 : Call on Existing Resources & Support – Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

As part of our series on Top Tips for Local Food Distribution, we’re diving a little deeper into each of the 5 tips we gave. This week is ‘Call on Existing Resources & Support’ – Standing on the Shoulders of Giants. You can also check out '#1 : Get Social - a guide to new media for local food'.   “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” - Isaac Newton   Have you created your dream job, only to find that despite offering quality local produce from farmers who care - customers are slow to jump aboard? Or are you a startup veg box scheme which needs a pointer in the right direction to get the wheels rolling?   Whatever your challenge, someone, somewhere is likely to have already faced it.  Thanks to the wonders of Continue...

Sustainable Food Summit – Vision of a Future Food System

How do we create a food system which is sustainable in the face of growing population pressures, changing weather patterns, declining natural resources, and a sharp decline in soil health? Conversation & Action for a better food system at the National Sustainable Food Summit. Continue...

Beta testers: Ding Ding – Round Two

Bucky Box is now accepting another group of Beta testers for Round 2 of trials for it's Tools for Local Food distribution! Get in early, it's first come, first served! Continue...

Visualising the Challenge & Solutions

Like many people, we've been really enjoying the proliferation of infographics around the world, helping us to better understand some of the amazing data we now have available. Here's a great little animation of Michael Pollan's "Food Rules" RSA speech, as well as few infographics from around the interwebs... Continue...

Twitter Hashtags for Local Food!

Read our curated list of hashtags for the discerning Local Foodies & Food Revolutionaries around the world! There's a massive amount of interesting links & stories out there, so set up your alerts and follow some of these handy Twitter hashtags! Continue...

Disasters, Reflections & Resilience

Reflecting back on 2011, you don't get very far without thinking of the various disasters that seem to have been hitting us in waves this year. Whether it was the devastation wrought by the 'biblical' floods in Australia, the horrific earthquakes in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Turkey & Japan, the nuclear disaster that resulted, the ferocious storms which rolled into the US, volcano ash disrupting world travel, famines threatening the lives of hundreds of thousands, epic floods in Asia, or the man made disasters like the Rena Oil Spill.  It's been a year with a lot of hurt around the world. Even look just here in NZ, things seem to have been somewhat topsy turvy - the fall out from the Christchurch Earthquake is still ongoing (including a total rebuild of the central business district which Continue...

Vegetable Box Schemes, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), Food Hubs & Farmers Markets… cutting through the Local Food jargon

We realised that a lot of people have never actually come across the local food movement, and as such have no idea what some of these terms actually mean, so we decided to give you a bit of a glossary of local food, to explain some of the food movement's jargon. Continue...