a food maker success story
Matt & Louby from 'The Backyard Food Company' are building a national brand that started from a backyard garden.
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a food maker success story
Karen from 'Just Like Nana's' puts her own twist on a traditional Jewish pastry.
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A food maker success story.
Greg from 'Rose Mary's Pralines' developed his product from a 100 year-old family recipe.
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a food maker success story
Lenny from 'Avonaise' has developed his own signature avocado-based mayo.
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a food maker success story
Maureen from 'Sacred Cow' created a crowd-pleasing granola with a unique flavor profile.
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Where food producers, farmers and fishermen can connect, scale and thrive!

We provide access to industry-specific resources and low cost, low risk shared-use commercial kitchens to local entrepreneurs jump-starting early-stage food companies.

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Our signature incubation program gives food businesses a low-risk opportunity to test, scale and develop without the cost and liability in equipping, managing and maintaining your own commercial facility.

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Makers will love working in one of our 4 code-compliant, shared-use commercial kitchens.

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Nutritionists, Teachers, Chefs and other food educators can utilize our Demo Kitchen as a workspace, training space or dining room.

Comprehensive Curriculum

Our curriculum provides entrepreneurs with the recipe for turning your food into a profitable business.

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Members can use our online booking module to request private space to host meetings, tastings or administrative tasks.

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We offer a code-compliant space with equipment for labeling, sealing and shrink-wrapping packages.

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Our members have access to both cold and dry storage in the form of shelving, pallets, and secure roller lockers.

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Hope & Main is home to more than 50 independent food-related companies looking to develop and expand their businesses. We help “incubate” these companies and connect them with customers & retailers like you.

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Rose Mary’s Pralines

Drawing upon his grandmother’s 100 year-old recipe, Greg Mundy founded Rose Mary’s Pralines as a way of bringing a southern delicacy beyond New Orleans. Greg makes his pecan pralines in small batches, bringing the ingredients together using copper-bottom pots, and then pours the confection onto marble slabs to [...]

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August 15

This chicken Cultrō made for #NourishOurNeighbors a couple of weeks ago was amazing! Can't wait to try their Stewed Chicken over Spanish Vegetable Rice this Wednesday: https://t.co/tFUgPV2Usr

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August 5

@HopeandMain Founder, Public Health Expert Lisa Raiola to teach @RWUUC course tackling challenges of food production, equity, profitability during pandemic. For current+future restaurant owners, food companies, farmers, fishermen, others in industry
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Hooray for #WhatsLocalWednesday! Pick up your weekly @SourceWhatsGood order, shop #SchoolyardMarket & get takeout from popups and food trucks! 🥳🥳🥳 (masks required 😷)

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