Tour The New Ontario Agri-Food Venture Centre
Posted: May 20, 2015
Categories: Food in the News / Food Processing / GoodFoodBites
The Ontario Agri-Food Venture Centre (OAFVC) is now open for registration and tours! The OAFVC is a not-for-profit, small-batch food processing facility developed by Northumberland County, with support from the Ontario government. This new facility exemplifies a solution for building up regional processing capacity to support local food producers as recommended in Menu 2020: Ten Good Food Ideas for Ontario (2010).
From the OAFVC website:
“Designed with farmers in mind, the Ontario Agri Food Venture Centre (OAFVC) will support fresh fruit and vegetable value-adding opportunities to increase farm revenue. The facility will also help foodies with recipe development, and staff will work with food processing start-up companies and expansions in Ontario to progress Research and Development, test batch and facilitate small batch co-packing.
The OAFVC will offer services including:
- Washing
- Cut
- Quick chill
- Flash freeze
- Labelling
- Cold, frozen and dry storage
- Fully equipped commercial kitchen
- Packaging
- Training facility
- Business incubation
Can’t wait to check it out? Book a tour of the new OAFVC today!
Want to learn more about how to get involved? Visit the OAFVC website to learn more about registration, services, training opportunities, the process behind building the facility, and more.