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Work for Lourish!

May 4, 2011

Lourish is growing and we’re looking for people with passion, skills and enthusiasm to help us create innovative ways of sharing home grown produce through swapping, sharing and building local food networks.

Be part of the Lourish collaborative food revolution

The positions on offer are flexible, voluntary and can suit the time you have available. We can’t pay you but we can help you gain experience, learn new skills, build your CV, make a career change or take a break from the rat race.

For your effort, commitment and enthusiasm we’ll put you at the heart of our collaborative food revolution backed by UnLtd and Channel 4 TV’s 4ip fund.

Think you’ve got what we’re looking for? (more…)

Lourish and Collaborative Consumption – The Big Issue

May 3, 2011

If you pass a Big Issue seller this week you might be interested in the cover story on collaborative consumption turning “the culture of ‘me’ into the culture of ‘we’”.

It covers some of the sites at the forefront of the movement like Ecomodo, Landshare, Swishing and of course Lourish is there too.

Well worth a couple of quid, we think!

Lourish wins UnLtd 4ip award to bring you hyperlocal food!

February 22, 2011

We’ve won an award! Woo hoo!

We’re very exited to announce that Lourish has won a 4ip award from UnLtd to help continue the development of lourish.com in 2011. The award will provide funding for the next stage of development of lourish.com – going hyperlocal! (more…)

Your Lourish because you’re Lourish!

November 22, 2010

From the outside it might look rather quiet here at Lourish but let us assure you it’s anything but – we’re in the middle of planning how Lourish will look in 2011 and there are lots of exciting things that we want to do – the only problem is what to choose!

Instead of just us thinking up features, we thought we should ask you, the Lourishers, what you’d like to see on lourish.com – is there a great feature that you think is missing, does something not work as you think it should or is there part of the site that could be done better – we need to know!

So if you’ve got an opinion we really want to hear it. Drop us a comment on this blog, send us a message via the site or join the conversation on our Facebook page and if your suggestion becomes a feature we’ll credit you on lourish.com!

Spread the lourishment

September 20, 2010

lourish.com exists because we felt there should be a way to connect with grow-your-own gardeners locally to make the most of what you grow. Now lourish.com is up and running it’s the people who use and support it who will determine its success. That’s why it’s always touching when people get in contact to say what they like (or even dislike) about the site, to wish us well or, as sometimes happens, to ask if they can do anything to help support Lourish and spread the word in their neighbourhood. (more…)

Wear the badge!

September 8, 2010

Want to show your support for Lourish? Now you can wear the Lourish colours on your website or blog with our brand new Lourish badges.

There are 3 styles to choose from and all you need to do is copy the HTML snippet provided below and add it to your web page to show your support and spread the lourishment!

Cool carrot

Share your own at lourish.com

<a href=”http://lourish.com”><img style=”border: 0;” src=”http://static.lourish.com/carrot-badge-250×100.png” alt=”Share your own at lourish.com” width=”250″ height=”100″ /></a>

Grow-your-own green

Share your own at lourish.com

<a href=”http://lourish.com”><img style=”border: 0;” src=”http://static.lourish.com/green-badge-250×100.png” alt=”Share your own at lourish.com” width=”250″ height=”100″ /></a>

Waste-not white

Share your own at lourish.com

<a href=”http://lourish.com”><img style=”border: 0;” src=”http://static.lourish.com/white-badge-250×100.png” alt=”Share your own at lourish.com” width=”250″ height=”100″ /></a>


See more at http://lourish.com/promote

Lourish has launched!

August 3, 2010

It’s party time here at Lourish HQ as the brand spanking new lourish.com site is now up and running and ready to help you swap your surplus fruit and veg!

So, while we tuck in to the jelly and ice cream and get out the twister, take a look at lourish.com, sign up and let us know what you think – we’d really love to hear from you.

If you’ve got a surplus of something, head to the exchange and be the first in your area to start a swap and exchange all those courgettes for something you don’t have. To give you an idea, Lourish HQ is swapping some chillis and cucumbers. It’s dead easy and if you like it, don’t forget to tell your friends.

Have fun, swap your surplus, share your own and, most of all, raise a glass to the hard work of the Lourish team who have made it all possible! Well done boys and girls, now go have some fun on the bouncy castle, you deserve it!

Dave

But what exactly is Lourish?

July 20, 2010

We realise that we’ve been a bit short on detail here at Lourish HQ and the question “But what exactly is Lourish?” has been asked by some of you kind people who helped us by filling in our survey (for which we are very grateful indeed, so thank you).

I must apologise for not explaining Lourish a bit more and a bit sooner; it has been a busy few weeks here at Lourish HQ as the final few bugs are being squashed ready for the launch of the Lourish Exchange, which should be helping you “share your own” in the next week or so. I’ll be posting some early pictures of the site on flickr when I get a chance, but today I want to give you some detail about what to expect from Lourish.

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Of all we survey

June 4, 2010

To get an idea of what you are interested in and the sort of features you might find useful on lourish.com we’ve created a short survey. You might well have ended up here having just completed it and if so, thank you! It really means a lot to us here at Lourish when you lend your time to tell us what you think.

If you haven’t yet had a chance to fill in the survey it’s not too late, you’ll find it here – https://lourish.wufoo.com/forms/lourish-grow-your-own-survey/and it only takes 5 minutes to complete.

Early results show that the vast majority of you are growing something, whether it’s herbs, fruit, vegetables or all three, which is, of course, great to hear! But don’t be put off taking the survey if you’re not green-fingered, don’t grow much, or can’t grow anything right now, we would still like to know what you think.

Lourish has a new home

June 2, 2010

Exciting times here at Lourish HQ as lots has been happening over the last few weeks, not least the arrival of lourish.com with a great look from the artfully adroit doctor of design Cole007.

We’re not far away from launching the first part of the site; the final bugs are being squashed and the pages polished on the Lourish exchange, but more on that in a later post.

And it’s not only a new virtual home for Lourish, but a new HQ too as yesterday Lourish moved in to the ideaLab, part of Cambridge’s ideaSpace in the Hauser Forum. It’s a co-working space so there are other Cambridge technology start-ups sharing the space and on a sunny day like today I can’t think of a nicer place to work in Cambridge.

Lourish at ideaSpace

The view from the lab


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