Nick Weir
2025
Nick is a part-time grower on a Community Supported Agriculture project and a Community Facilitator with the Open Food Network; helping to build resilient, local food systems across the UK. He has worked with 200+ food hubs, farm shops, producer co-ops, food co-ops, buying groups and food banks. He is now focussed on how the OFN platform enables farmers and growers to engage with public sector contracts by consolidating local supply from multiple producers through a single procurement hub.
My Sessions
Food: The secret ingredient in nature recovery
Sophie Robinson
Ben Marks
Nick Weir
Hugh van Cutsem
Molly Biddell
How can food support nature recovery? Conservation grazing and the shooting of wild deer are both key ways in which habitats can be restored or protected, while providing high welfare, quality meat. Telling this story to consumers not only supports sales, but can bring knowledge of the importance of protecting rare, native habitats to a […]
Making Public Procurement workable: selling through food hubs
Abi Mordin
Zosia Walczak
Kiloran O’Leary
Richard Edwards
Nick Weir
Agroecological farmers & growers are often blocked from public procurement contracts partly because of the admin involved & partly because they cannot individually meet the quantity requirements of public sector buyers. The Procurement For Good project is funded by the Economic & Social Research Council, and is running in 4 UK areas to link up […]