We believe in human-first food businesses
Advisory
We work with councils and institutions to uncover and lower the barriers preventing people from starting or growing successful food businesses, especially food makers from diverse socio-economic, cultural or ethnic backgrounds.
These food makers may be from historically excluded and intersecting backgrounds, including First Nations peoples, women and gender-diverse people, people from migrant, refugees & asylum seeker backgrounds, and people living with disability.
Barriers to entry into food businesses
Everything we do has a human-first focus. Existing incubators, commercial kitchens and organisations aimed at promoting small-scale food businesses often only look at the business, not the human and the structural barriers that give preference to some businesses over others, making it possible for only some of them to succeed.
These barriers may include:
Complex regulations and processes
Access to commercial kitchen spaces
High startup costs/lack of access to capital
Language barriers
Fear of authority
A lack of confidence and business skills
Prejudice and stereotypes
Working together
Humble Sampler advisory, and you
• Consulting
• Advisory
• Co-design
We want to help you understand the barriers for those wanting to start or grow a food business so that we can get more people earning a livelihood and sharing their skills and knowledge in your Local Government Area or community.
As a strategic, values-driven organisation that seeks to work in partnership with all of our stakeholders, we want to promote social justice in a positive and collaborative way.