Boosting America’s Regional Farms in the Era of Big Food | Eater
"A Portland-based nonprofit built a physical food hub with roughly 2,000 square feet of cold storage, food-prep space, office facilities, and a bicycle-based distribution system to help small producers store, prepare, and efficiently transport products within the city. The hub complements a two-year Ag of the Middle accelerator that provides a business boot camp, grant application assistance, and technical help so producers can transition from direct-to-consumer sales to wholesale, retail, and institutional channels; program participants have collectively increased sales, won significant grants, and created new jobs, illustrating the hub’s role as infrastructure that helps mid-sized, value-added producers scale sustainably." - Virginia Gewin
