School District Bakes Local
The Lawrence, Kansas, school district’s new Community Connections Bakery will source 51 percent of its grains from local farmers. It will produce whole grain baked goods for school meals serving some 10,000 K-12 students.
Strong First Round for Business Builder
Round 1 of the Heartland Center’s Business Builder grant program received funding requests from 479 applicants totaling $20,021,077, with an average request of $41,798.
Turtle Island Trade Coalition part of building Indigenous food sovereignty
The Turtle Island Trade Coalition is an Indigenous-created and Indigenous-led program embedded within the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), established specifically to develop a Great Plains Indigenous food hub and restore historical trade relationships.
Videos: Scaling up to institutional sales
Heartland Center collaborator Springfield Community Gardens brought together industry experts for a two-part webinar series on expanding to institutional sales.
USDA and the Heartland Regional Food Business Center Make Available Over $3.7 Million to Farm and Food Businesses in First Round of Business Builder Grants
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15, 2024 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Heartland Regional Food Business Center (RFBC) today announced the availability of over $3.7 million in Business Builder Grants to support small, mid-sized, and diverse food and farm entrepreneurs. … Continued
Business Builder Grants: Example Applicants and Projects
The Heartland Regional Food Business Center will soon open its Business Builder Subaward grant program for applications. This article reviews types of applicants and projects.
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.