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Four years ago I tried to build something new in the food system but I can see now that it was too early, and in the wrong place. Going even further back, when I ran The Café in the Park (Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire), I once had the idea of rolling out a franchise of cafés under the  Riverford Organic Farmers  brand. We had some good conversations, but in the end they decided it would have been mission drift for them. In 2019 I sold the restaurant, moved to Totnes, and began developing what...

How do we unlock town centre buildings for amazing ideas? Get in the room early. Build partnerships based on mutuality. Talk about money all the time. These three pieces of solid-gold advice were taken from a workshop held by  Platform Places  , easily one of the most useful conversations I’ve joined on how to build local business partnerships. Two speakers in particular got me thinking: 👉  Erika  from  Kindred LCR : "It’s the relationship between our activities and our buildings that we...