can-do kitchen Project

3 Phases of Growth & Promise

Thanks to the Michigan Organic Food & Farm Alliance (MOFFA), the first phase of this project has been a fully equipped kitchen trailer located at the Kalamazoo County Fairgrounds. Today we're grateful to First Baptist Church for sharing their fantastic commercial kitchen with us. And the future of the Can-Do Kitchen looks even bigger!

Can-Do Kitchen Tomorrow

We're in the planning phase of building a bricks-and-mortar, permanent facility in Kalamazoo - large enough to simultaneously house an anchor tenant and multiple incubator clients. It will also be home to our foodservice training program. Finally, it will house Future Chefs, Fair Food Matters' hands-on cooking class for teens.

The customized Can-Do Kitchen facility will feature basic commercial kitchen equipment as well as specialty equipment. Plans include additional business incubation services such as voice-mail and regular mailboxes, copy/fax machines, wireless Internet access, connections with SBTDC and other local business resources, plus food preparation resources. Fair Food Matters and our community partners are very excited about the potential for innovation and collaboration.

Can-Do Kitchen Yesterday

Until July 1, 2009, the Can-Do Kitchen Trailer was located at the Kalamazoo County Fairgrounds. Get a flavor from an excerpt of a 2008 Gazette article. And many thanks to Michigan Organic Food & Farm Alliance (MOFFA) for loaning the trailer to Fair Food Matters for the past 2 years.

The Trailer was small but mighty: offering a fully functioning kitchen with 8-burner gas range/oven, 3-part sink, hand sink, stainless steel tables, refrigerator/freezer, and hot water.