Shared Use Value-added Commercial Kitchen Resources

Funding Sources:

• As far as funding is concerned, check out the grant resource section of the USDA “Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food” website at http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/knowyourfarmer?navtype=KYF&navid=KYF_GRANTS.

Kitchen Examples:

• Citrus County Canning Center
• Community Food Processing (value added) Centers in NC
• Community Food Processing, LLC, Wisconsin
• Franklin County, MA Food Processing Center
• Taos County Economic Development Corporation also works directly with farmers in their kitchen. You can check them out at http://www.tcedc.org/programs.html and click on Taos Food Center
• Blue Ridge Food Ventures in Asheville, NC
• "Food Biz Startup Blog" relating to Shared Use Commercial Kitchen Incubators (http://www.foodbizstartup.net/blog?mode=PostView&bmi=231540)
• Mission Mountain Food Enterprise Center, in Lake County, MT www.mmfec.org.  (Karl Sutton)Leslie Schaller (or someone else) at ACEnet in Athens, OH, which is the “granddaddy” of kitchen incubator projects and serves a primarily agricultural population.  http://www.acenetworks.org
• In Oregon - a small processing facility called Sweet Creek Foods -http://www.sweetcreekfoods.com
• Commercial Kitchen at the South Valley Economic Development Center in Albuquerque, NM.  http://www.svedc.org/
• Here is an example of a food processing center in Greenfield, Mass that is trying to include farmers in their mix of other food entrepreneurs: http://www.nofamass.org/news/article.php?issue=9&article=86