Sense-Making in a Changing World Where's the local food near you? Tianda Williams joins Morag Gamble
When supply chains wobble and prices jump, the most powerful thing we can do is reconnect locally. Tianda Williams, co founder of UForage, is helping make local food visible again, from backyard abundance to roadside stalls and small growers.
On this episode of Sense-Making in a Changing World podcast we are diving into this super practical local food solution that you can all be part of.
UForage is a free, map-based mobile app that connects local growers, makers, and foragers with consumers to share, swap, or sell fresh, local food, effectively acting as a digital "farmers market in your pocket"
In 2022, Tianda's family lost their home in the Northern Rivers area to floods. It made them realise the significance of food security, community support and sustainability, and inspired her to find a way to help others, and began creating this app to connect people with local food near them.
Uforage maps local food from backyard abundance and roadside stalls to small producers and foraging locations. We talk about how local food access is often shaped by who you happen to meet, and how a simple mapping tool like this can help communities connect, reduce waste, and strengthen resilience during disruptions like floods and supply shortages.
In this episode we explore
- How floods, shortages, and being cut off make local connection feel urgent and practical.
- What this digital mapping tool works and how you can connect - supporting sharing, swapping, selling, and mapping, without taking transaction fees.
- Food waste, hunger, and the quiet abundance already growing around us.
- Why “local first” solutions can ripple outward without needing to scale in a centralised way.
Links
UForage
UForage app
TIanda's LinkedIn
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MORAG GAMBLE
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