Have you always wanted to start your own food business but didn’t know where to start? Glacial Hills Food Center is organizing a free “Starting a Food Business Workshop” from 2:30 to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 29, at the Horton Community Center, 716 1st Avenue West, Horton.
Topics and speakers include:
- Simply Kansas Program and Other Marketing Ideas, presented by Becky Sullivan, Kansas Department of Agriculture;
- Food Ingredient, Processing, Labeling, and Packaging Resources, presented by Dr. Fadi Aramouni, Kansas State University Value Added Foods Lab, and Kathryn Deschenes, Foods Lab manager;
- Food Safety and Good Manufacturing Practices, Dr. Fadi Aramouni;
- Insurance Needs of a Food Business, Paul McLenon, Shelter Insurance, and
- Assistance Available for Starting a Business, Mary Ann Riederer, Washburn Small Business Development Center.
For more information or to RSVP for the workshop, contact Gary Satter, executive director of Glacial Hills Resource Conservation & Development, at 785-608-8801 or Connie Pantle, Glacial Hills Food Center manager, at 913-370-3940.
The workshop is sponsored by Glacial Hills Food Center, Kansas Value Added Foods Lab at K-State, Kansas Department of Agriculture, Washburn Small Business Development Center, and Northeast Kansas Rural Business Development Program.
The Glacial Hills Food Center, which is a program of the Glacial Hills RC&D, is a shared-use, commercial kitchen for food entrepreneurs who want to start or expand a food-based business.
The food center provides a commercially licensed kitchen and an assortment of shared commercial equipment which allow for food preparation, packaging and distribution of finished products in a food safe environment. The Food Center is the only kitchen incubator in northeast Kansas that supports food entrepreneurs in the production of fresh and preserved high value specialty foods.
from JeffCountynews.com http://www.jeffcountynews.com/2012/02/workshop-on-starting-a-food-based-business-feb-29-in-horton/
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