Support the County Food Hub, a leading edge certified commercial “sharing” kitchen, providing chefs, caterers, home cooks, and food product developers with industry-best equipment, space, time, and storage to serve their diverse needs.
Born out of the availability of excess space of an elementary school scheduled for closure, County Food Hub is an exemplar of how to ensure a stronger commitment to rural education while supporting the needs of a vital culinary industry and developing a broader commitment to sustainable healthy food development and education.
County Food Hub services small-scale food operations, caterers, food truck proprietors, restaurants, not-for-profit food security organizations, and, through a developing program of food education and training, the students, parents and community of Prince Edward County and the Bay of Quinte.
OUR VISION
➢Provide Ontario with a model approach to strengthening rural education that makes use of surplus school space to provide educational opportunities for students and social and economic opportunities for local communities.
OUR MISSION
➢ Provide food production and development opportunities so that local entrepreneurs can more efficiently take their ideas to market, improving local economic development.
➢ Provide support for healthy food distribution and food training so that more and more under-served low income families have increased access to healthy food at reasonable cost.
➢ Provide space and resources for food service training to support the fast-growing culinary industry in the region.
➢ Develop innovative enhanced learning opportunities to encourage a life-time commitment to healthy eating, food sustainability and a keen appreciation of the opportunities present in the local food industry.
