Local Food and Creative Producers | Local Origins Rural Network

PRODUCERS MARKETS now running regularly

Food and Creative Producers
Rural Skills
The idea behind the formation of this organisation is to bring the local food and creative producers together with the local community of the Lorn area. The aim is to provide the businesses with the chance to communicate with each other, to improve our local and economic sustainability, grasp opportunities that are, so often, more effective as a group and engage with the community better.
The internet is a powerful tool which will allow us to achieve all these aims by giving us a simple [and, effectively, free] method of communication between ourselves. An online community may be new to many but its potential is great, and worth learning a few new skills for.

Are you a local producer? : - livestock farmer, shellfish farmer, vegetable grower, baker, confectioner, cook, involved in the creative arts, making your own crafts, designing your own art, using your skills to earn a living in the rural economy.

Do you live in the LORN area? : - Ballachulish, Glencoe, Duror, Cuil Bay, Kentallen, Appin, Port Appin, Lismore, Shian, Barcaldine, Benderloch, Ledaig, Connel, Bonawe, Taynuilt, Loch Awe, Dalmally, Inveraray, Dalavich, Kilchrenan, Dunbeg, Oban, Kerrera, Kilmore, Lerags, Seil, Balvicar, Easdale, Luing, Kilninver, Kilmelford.
Are you interested in joining a local organisation which aims to enable all of us to communicate with each other better, engage with the local community better, take more advantage of opportunities by working together, and keep abreast with all the incoming regulations more easily?
Do you find yourself working alone, with your partner, wondering what others in the area are doing and thinking?
Do you see opportunities, like grants or development or exhibitions, pass you by because you are too small alone to take advantage, or to set up the required facilities? Do you hear about good things after they have passed?
Would you like access to representatives of the local regulatory and advisory bodies to ask questions before problems occur?
Would you like to use the services of others in the area, but often find it hard to find out who does want? Would you like to offer your services to others in the area but find its far too expensive to advertise in our local media and too haphazard otherwise?
Would you like to work with other producers to create more marketing situations selling direct to the local community, both resident and visitors, so adding value to your product, reducing the food miles and improving the viability of your business? The ideas include developing both retail and wholesale markets.
Would you like to access more training that is tailored to your needs in both content and timing and location? Whether business, technical skills, regulations, whatever?
Can you think of other reasons to get together with other small businesses who are producing or using their skills to make a living in the Lorn area?
If you can answer any of these in the affirmative -then please fill one of the Producers forms and send it to LORN. Think what we can all achieve together!
Join today! - information and forms to download are here