New Vermont Food Processing Center Opens

The increasing number of Vermont specialty food producers – many of them farmers – is creating a demand for facilities where they can make their products. Many have outgrown their home kitchens but they’re still too small to invest in a commercial facility. That’s where food processing centers come in.

The centers rent commercial kitchen space and provide expertise. In recent years two high profile processing facilities have opened in Vermont:  The non-profit Vermont Food Venture Center in Hardwick and the privately owned Mad River Food Hub in Waitsfield.  Now a new food processing center called Micropack has opened in a South Burlington industrial park.

Glenn Coville is a co-partner and operates an organic farm in Craftsbury and produces a line of botanical products. He says the idea behind Micropack is to provide other farmers and producers with a facility to make value added agricultural products.
 
“Farmers really need value added products to make small farms work, so really in my mind it’ about creating infrastructure,” says Coville.

For the complete article and details please visit:  http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/97754/demand-for-specialty-food-prompts-new-processing-c/.

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