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Really encouraging news from our member Barra Organics, who successfully harnessed the support of their local community in Sheffield to save their business. Barra Organics…
Fridge or Bust: How Barra Organics Glavanised Their Community
The last 12 months have been challenging for almost all Better Food Traders. While the pandemic brought a surge in demand and heightened awareness of…
Top Tips for Cost Savings
Great to see so many of you at the ORFC panel Radical Retailers: Working Together Better as Traders. For anyone unable to make it, we…
Better Food Traders at ORFC 2023
For many of our members, one of the biggest challenges of 2022 has been how to respond to Boxmaster’s announcement that they will soon cease…
Where Next After Boxmaster?
We are excited to announce that bookings for our Business Support Week in January have opened! If you’re a Better Food Trader member, you can…
Surviving and Thriving: Business Support Week
Desperate times need not mean desperate measures. Better Food Trader Project Leader, Julia Kirby-Smith, argues it’s positive marketing that will help you gain and retain…
The Power of Positive Marketing
Our food system – the way we produce, eat and buy food – is the single greatest threat to the health of our planet.
Do Better Food
With the cost of food going up daily, it’s more important than ever to make sure we make the most of every mouthful of locally…
Tips from the experts on how to make the most of your fruit and veg
Hattie Hammans, in her role with City University’s Food Research Collaboration, spoke to Better Food Trader member Regather, a sustainable food hub in Sheffield. They…
“We’re not unique, thankfully.” An interview with Regather, a sustainable food hub in Sheffield
The latest blog from Better Food Trader member Growing Communities gives five excellent reasons to sign up for a veg bag membership and shows us…
Five ways your veg bag membership helps cool the planet
