Building the case for local ownership of food business
Wallace Center asked Web Collective to design and build a website to complement a book of community food enterprise case studies.
They wanted a website that would grow in step with the blossoming world of community food enterprises. We built Community Food Enterprise to present complex case studies in a user-friendly way while also ensuring capacity for growth as more case studies are added. The hope is that people around the world considering food enterprises visit this website and learn from the successes and failures of others and as a result build stronger, more effective businesses. visit site...
"Thank you for a great website... it's well designed, highly functional and informative. And this is the best presentation of case studies I've ever seen... sure beats the PDF alternative. Congratulations on an excellent job!"
Patti G.
Nova Scotia, Canada
About CFE
In the spring of 2008, we put out the call for innovative examples of “community food enterprises,” to build the case for local ownership of food business. We believe locally owned food businesses can help more people access healthy, sustainably grown food and strengthen local economies by fostering income, jobs, and resources within the community.
From the hundreds of submissions we received, the CFE team selected 24 enterprises—producers, processors, grocers, restaurants, training programs and other food-related businesses from the Americas, Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe.

