Starting or Joining a Food Business Cooperative – 2021 FEED Series

Written by Erin Peot A part of the FEED program

This webinar was presented on June 28, 2021

By working together, entrepreneurs can create connections to new suppliers or buyers, reduce costs through bulk purchasing, reduce operating costs, share insight, support each other, better leverage technology, etc. Learn from UW Center for cooperatives, SLO farmer coop (and others) for insight about cooperatives to benefit your business and your community.

Presenters: Kelly Maynard, UW Center for Co-ops; Amanda Chu, SLO Farmer’s Co-op

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Food Business Development

We partner with other UW-Madison and Extension programs, including Community Economic Development, Farm Management, the Food Financing Institute, and the Food Research Institute, to provide Food Business Development programs. We connect small-scale food and farm entrepreneurs with business services providers and research-based training and resources on topics such as food safety and licensing. We are working to ensure that our programs and resources are culturally responsive and available in multiple languages.

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FEED

The Food Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Development (FEED) Project provides opportunities to learn about starting or expanding a successful food business from Wisconsin based specialists and entrepreneurs! These trainings are for people who are interested in starting or expanding small-scale food businesses in Wisconsin.

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