As usual this is a great idea @MyriamBoure. I think there are buying clubs here that would also want to operate more like a community - where they know each other etc – and as long as the consumer decides if they want their contact details shared or not, this seems great to me.
On a sort of related note - suppliers for food hubs here tend to be smaller scaled, and spread over great distances. Right now, in most of the food hubs I work with, suppliers can see each others product, price and stock details in the hub shops. They like that. For one reason - they can put more stock on offer if they see another supplier’s stock is ‘sold out’. But second, these suppliers often trade off deliveries of each others products to the hub.
So - I wonder if we might consider the same optional transparency for ‘incoming’ into an OC? I know that could be a different thing technically. I just keep looking for ways that OFN can facilitate this kind of community building among suppliers/producers.