We’re Magandjin/Brisbane’s first community-owned food hub, bringing together the people, facilities and ideas to create a fair, local, and resilient food system.
If you're a farmer, food entrepreneur or community builder, this is the place to sow your ideas and cultivate impact.
For everyone else - explore, eat, connect. There’s flavour and stories in every corner.
Good food, big ideas, a better future
What’s a food hub?
Food hubs are pivotal connectors in a robust local food system. We provide shared infrastructure, spaces, services and knowledge to farmers, businesses, institutions and communities - enabling a fairer, more sustainable way of sourcing, preparing and distributing food.
By shortening and enriching value chains, prioritizing ethical sourcing, and strengthening regional economies, food hubs ensure fresh, local, and ethically produced food reaches the people who need it most - while ensuring farmers are supported (and paid) properly, and reducing waste.
Our impact
In the last 2 years alone, Food Connect Shed has seen:
30 tenant businesses (with 5 ‘graduating’ to independent operations)
254 events
Subsidised rent providing $444k in savings to tenants (compared to market rates)
9/10 tenants saying being part of the Shed helped their business run more smoothly or feel more secure.
Source: Food Connect Impact Measurement Framework report 2026 - delivered by GoodWolf Partners
How we help
Facilities & resources
No matter what kind of change you’re making - whether it’s feeding your neighbours or expanding an ethical food business - we provide the essential spaces and resources to bring your ideas to life:
Commercial kitchen and warehousing: A launchpad for food entrepreneurs to scale their ideas while prioritizing local, ethical, and sustainable sourcing.
Event & gathering spaces: A stage for knowledge-sharing, movement-building, and celebrating food, culture, and community.
Office & collaboration spaces: A hub for food system innovators, activists, and small businesses to connect and create
Networks & support
We’re more than our walls. Owned and brought to life by more than 500 passionate Careholders, relationships and collaboration are in Food Connect Shed’s DNA. Whether you’re here for a day or make us your home, you become part of our ever-expanding network of good people doing great things. Learn from your peers, connect with aligned suppliers, share resources, get introduced to movers and shakers, and work together to make tangible change.
Our history
Food Connect Shed builds on the heart and shoulders of Brisbane’s social enterprise and farm-to-plate pioneers, Food Connect, and its guiding Food Connect Foundation. To ensure the longevity and resilience of the Shed and the systems change we’re creating, we needed security. So in 2018, in an Australian-first we raised over $2 million in an equity crowdfunding campaign to buy this old pre-war warehouse on Textile Cres, Salisbury.
Our facilities are now owned by over 500 committed investors who we call Careholders - creating a permanent home for our food hub, and a secure base for the many businesses and changemakers who’ve called us home over the years.
Since then we’ve weathered literal storms and a pandemic, enabled continued food supply to our community when mainstream channels were cut off (showing the importance of agile value chains), hosted countless events and more. Find out more about our impact here.
‘A local economy that works for all is possible’
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