Practice Abstract - Research and innovation

Bigbarn

Bigbarn is an online farm shop and retailing business set up by a farmer to promote local and regional foods. The MD Ant Davidson, is a marketeer who attracted attention early on as he was very happy to dress up as a carrot (or other vegetable) to attend shows and get his message across! It now promotes thousands of products on behalf of multiple small food producers and continues to grow. BigBarn is a Community Interest Company and as part of this hosts a database of case studies to help its producer members improve their businesses and better meet the needs of local consumers.

Reconnection of consumers with local producers. Improved profitabilty for local food producers, thereby boosting local rural communities to make them more sustainable.

Building local supply chains through sharing best practice. The importance of mediators in developing 'clever combinations' of knowledges, resouces, materials to facilitate the sale of local products and to reconnect consumers.

Source Project
SKIN - Short supply chains Knowledge & Innovation Network
Ongoing | 2016-2019
Main funding source
Horizon 2020 (EU Research and Innovation Programme)
Geographical location
Italy
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