Community Food Systems: Processing

Community Kitchen

The Tri-County Community Kitchen is now open for business. Tri-County Health has given the kitchen its seal of approval. Call the Stevens County Extension Office for contact information, to visit the kitchen or to begin the process of obtaining a time to use the kitchen. Phone: (509) 684-2588; email: akowitz@wsu.edu

The purpose of a shared-use kitchen is to provide a commercial processing area that is agency approved for area entrepreneurs for baking, canning, catering, drying and freezing foods. These products can be sold in a variety of retail outlets. The shared use kitchen relieves any one entrepreneur from the high cost of building his or her own commercial kitchen. The kitchen is available to anyone who has developed a product for a hourly fee.

Food Ventures has a very comprehensive and useful web site that covers nearly every service provided by community kitchens.[www.acenetworks.org/frames/fvorientation_guide.htm]

Methow Valley Community Kitchen [http://www.sustainablemethow.org/foodalliance/kitchen/index.html] in Twisp: resourceful page on local food systems and the connection to their community kitchen.

Sandpoint Community Kitchen web page: description of their center and products generated at the kitchen. [www.sandpoint.org/bbc/kitchen.html]