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Commercial Kitchen Growing Business

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We are Provision Farms out of Crab Orchard KY.  We currently sell jams and jellies as well as other home processed goods at our local farmers market in Berea KY.  We are a small family owned farm, just myself, my wife and our grandson who we are raising. We moved to the farm in 2012 and started raising organic eggs and vegetabes. We started small and have seen our business to expand.   In Kentucky our business is limited at this point by regulations to sell only at our farm or our famers market. We need to expand our business. we get calls from all over the country for our jams, jellies, syrups etc.
Our problem like many small farmers through out the country is the lack of capital. We have a limit on the amount of debit we fill comfortable with. We are like many others in a boat we did not intend to ever get in and in order to expand our business and secure a future for ourselves and grandson we just can't take on any more debt.
We have given to others through sharing our wisdom on growing tomatoes using a bucket for watering, we encourage small farmers and even folks with a small garden space in this region to grow crops that can be sold locally to help their families. By going commercial with this kitchen we plan on opening such a market for the working poor in our communities. The last 8 years have been difficult for small town Appalachia and we know that our commercial venture can help Kentucky growers and others in the region as well.
We are looking to build a small commercial kitchen using a shoestring budget. We need a 14 x 30 storage shed which will serve as the building locally built and placed on our property. We have to place vinyl flooring at the minimun in the building and wall board that can be washed down. Two gas stoves or burner units, a refridgerator a triple basin stainless steel sink inside the kitchen area, plumbing for hot and cold potable water, hooked to our septic system, electric for lighting a few shelves for storing jars, labels, printers etc... as well as a hand wash sink, utility sink for the mops and a toilet (Because we can not attach the shed to our home)
Our business plans are to offer Appalachian grown Jams and other products through local gift shops in the tourist areas, and expand to a mail order business and internet business that is now unavailible to us because of regulations. We plan through our commercial outlets to buy local organiclly grown produce, berries etc... from small family growers. Folks would be able to grow their product and get a fair price from us  and seek our advise on what crops we could gurantee them we could purchase. We would also hnelp them to market any excess through other channels as well. We are looking for business partners as well that would take the opportunity to add our products to coorporative gift baskets and to their own shops across the country.
If our business model seems like something that you could support, either through a donation, or as an avenue or venue of marketing our products in your shop or store, please contact us. Your donation will not only make a difference in our businesses future but also in the lives of the working poor in South Central Kentucky and Beyond.

Thank You
James and Virginia Cox
Provision Farms
www.facebook.com/provisionfarms

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James Bryan Cox
Organizer
Crab Orchard, KY

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