Resettle Youngstown – Ohio

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Members of the Wick Park Neighborhood Association working together on the Stuart Place clean up project

Hello all,

As you may (or may not) have heard, we have been planning to establish a state and FDA certified shared-use commercial kitchen facility on the Northside. Such a facility will provide work space, equipment, and business advice for people interested in marketing value-added food products such as jellies, sauces, pies, etc.

We are still in the feasibility stage of this project and ask that everyone with a fantastic secret recipe who would like to make some extra money by marketing their value-added food product take this survey that will help us design a kitchen that will meet the needs of everyone interested in using such a facility.

For more information on shared-use kitchen facilities, check out ACEnet’s website. ACEnet (The Appalachian Center for Economic Networks) is a very successful shared-use manufacturing facility in Athens, Ohio that is kind enough to be guiding us in the development of this project.

Please join us for another Resettle Youngstown  meeting on Monday, October 19th at 6:30 p.m. at the Common Wealth office – 1221 Elm Street

Common Wealth, Inc. invites everyone interested in making & selling  value added food products to a free workshop about starting a KITCHEN INCUBATOR in Youngstown.

On Friday, Oct. 23, 2009, 4:30 – 6:00 p.m., Leslie Schaller, Business Counselor for the successful shared-use manufacturing kitchen in Athens, Ohio will discuss what is needed.

To register or get a survey, contact Jim @ 330-518-6971or jwcphd@aol.com or come to the First Unitarian Church, 1105 Elm St. Youngstown, across from Wick Park.

Bring a dish to share and stay for the Northside Farmers Market pot luck Harvest Fest at 6:00.

In case you haven’t heard, the Northside Farmers Market will be around for two more Saturdays! Come on over October 3rd and 11th for fresh fall vegetables and community togetherness.

When: Saturday, October 3rd and 11th 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Where: Grounds of the Universalist Unitarian Church – 1105 Elm Street Youngstown, OH 44505

The Northside Farmers Market has got a nice profile on localharvest.org. Check it out! Read comments, leave comments, use the search engine to find other local businesses that will help you maintain your locavoric lifestyle:

http://www.localharvest.org/farmers-markets/M30547

This is the link to the lovely article Maraline Kubik wrote about the August 24th Open House:

http://www.business-journal.com/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=1&twindow=&mad=&sdetail=14471&wpage=1&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=1711&hn=business-journal&he=.com

“The Farmers Market provides fresh food such as fruits and vegetables. Yet, the market is very important to a community like Youngstown”

“At the Farmers Market, two kids run a lemonade stand with a business plan. Their goal to pay back their grandfather who purchased the squeezer for the stand.”

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