 Blue Ridge Food Ventures
OVERVIEW OF BLUE RIDGE FOOD VENTURES
Blue Ridge Food Ventures is an 11,000 sq. ft. shared-use kitchen incubator and natural products manufacturing facility that offers support in product development, guidance through the maze of regulations governing safe production of food products and dietary supplements, advice on packaging and label design, and much more.
We're here to help people who dream--of getting their artisan food products to market, of running a baking or catering business, or even operating their own hot dog cart! We also help individuals and small businesses that want to make natural products and herbal dietary supplements, and get them into bottles and tubes and onto store shelves.
UPCOMING WORKSHOPS: Our next "Starting Your Specialty Food Business Class" series will be in held in the Fall of 2012. Come back often for more information! If you can't wait till then, check out Mountain Biz Works for their classes.
CLASSES & EVENTS
Class on FDA Requirements for Natural Products: Good Manufacturing Practices
Upcoming sessions, both from 10am-4pm:
February 16-17, 2012
May 11 and 25, 2012
If you are thinking of making an herbal product that falls under the Dietary Supplements definition of the FDA, you will need to take a class on current Good Manufacturing Practices for Dietary Supplements where you will learn what is required by law to safely manufacture, label and market your product.
As a part of the class, you can also tour the new Natural Products Manufacturing Facility at Blue Ridge Food Venture to learn how you can make your products in our facility and easily meet the requirements of the law. The class will be held at the AB Tech/Enka Campus. If you have questions, call Chris Reedy: 828-348-0130.
Acidified Foods ("Pickle School"" or Better Process Control School Coming Back to Asheville!
February 22-24, 2012
Holiday Inn Asheville - Biltmore West
Click here for more information.
Better Process Control School, perhaps better known as "Pickle School," is a 3-day class required by anyone wishing to produce pickles, chutneys, salsas, and many hot sauces and tomato products. Watch this space for details on the next session. Click here for lots more workshop information from NCSU.
WINTER SUN FARMS CSA
.JPG) Blue Ridge Food Ventures operates Winter Sun Farms—a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) program that provides members with frozen fruits and vegetables from Western North Carolina farmers. The sustainably grown produce is harvested at its peak, then quickly prepared and frozen for wintertime enjoyment. Once a month from December through March, members receive an assortment of diced, sliced or chopped vegetables; scrumptious berries—red, black and blue; and vegetable purees ready to become instant soups or healthy dips. Eat local all year round—from farm to freezer to your table in no time.
Pickup sites for the 2011-2012 winter season are at Blue Ridge Food Ventures on the A-B Tech Enka campus in West Asheville; the Grove Arcade in downtown Asheville; Hand in Hand Gallery in Flat Rock; and new this year--the Merry Wine Market in Black Mountain.
Sorry, but we are sold out of WSF shares for this season. CLICK HERE and scroll to the bottom of the page to sign up for our newsletter so you can place your order early next year and not miss out on this delicious opportunity. Thank you for your support.
NATURAL PRODUCTS MANUFACTURING FACILITY
Our Natural Products Manufacturing Facility is a current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP)-compliant facility that allows individuals and small businesses to grind a variety of herb and plant materials, prepare herbal extracts and bottle, label and seal their products. Support services from the Natural Products Laboratory at the BioBusiness Center helps clients meet relevant regulatory guidelines. Find out more here.
TOURS
Tours of Blue Ridge Food Ventures are given by appointment only. After you have studied the website and would like to request a site visit, please contact us by email, preferably a week in advance, to set up a meeting.
Initial Tour and Consultation Fee $60 - Includes facility tour & overview of services offered: guidance on product development, regulatory issues and packaging. If you become a BRFV user, this applies as your orientation and application fee.
To request a tour, please fill in our questionnaire.
A tour for individuals or groups from out of the Western North Carolina region who might be interested in starting their own incubator facility is $75 per hour.
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Testimonial
In an effort to respond to the diverse economic development needs of North Carolina, then State Representative Martin Nesbitt introduced legislation creating the regional economic development partnerships. It was this extraordinary insight that allowed AdvantageWest to become one of the most innovative and nimble economic development programs in the state.
Gordon S. Myers
Founding Chair
AdvantageWest Board of Directors
Amanda Baranski
, Executive Assistant & Assistant Corporate Secretary
AdvantageWest
134 Wright Brothers Way
Fletcher, NC 28732
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