Refugees ready to grow and sell food
Sergio Sosa works through the Heartland Center to help Maya refugees build food businesses and connect with local and regional markets. He is the Indigenous Food and Business Manager at Comunidad Maya Pixan Ixim.
Food hubs hook up for routes, orders
The Iowa Food Hub Network represents a next phase of growth in local and regional food capacity, both in the five-state Heartland Regional Food Business Center region and across the country.
Healthy food from healthy soil
Sandro Lopez has a product and a passion. His product is micro greens. His passion is building the soil. Thanks to business counselors at the Center for Rural Affairs, a Heartland Center partner, Lopez also has a business plan and business connections for marketing his product and pursuing his passion.
Local milk. Added value.
According to their growing customer base, Tony and Maria Barros have “traditional French Style Yogurt” figured out.
The local cows’ milk that they use for Amelia Creamery yogurt may have something to do with it. So, too, could the business development care they’ve received since starting up in 2017 from Oklahoma State University’s Food and Agricultural Products Center (FAPC), a Heartland Center partner.
Job Opening: Kansas resource navigator
K-State Research and Extension is hiring two positions to support its role in the Heartland Regional Food Business Center.
Coordinating regional assets and opportunities
Practitioner work groups along with regional asset mapping and analysis are two projects advancing the Heartland Center’s work to serve as a regional hub supporting food and farm entrepreneurs.
Community Food Infrastructure is Bottom Line
The new Heartland Regional Food Business Center includes community food system initiatives among its working partnerships for their ground-level work developing essential capacity and connections.
Business assistance network scales up
Heartland Regional Food Business Center partners are adding staff and connecting efforts to help ensure that small, mid-size diversified farm and food businesses find the help they need no matter who they are, or where they are.
Get ready for business-building grants
Now is the time for food and farm businesses to get ready for two significant funding opportunities opening now through 2024. Heartland Regional Food Business Center partners can help.
New 5-state resource network for small and mid-size farm and food businesses
The Heartland Regional Food Business Center is dedicated to the business building needed to make local food an everyday, easy choice in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and northwest Arkansas.