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

With SKP Design we are in the planning phase of designing with a brand new kitchen facility, to be located inside of the People's Food Co-op's new building at 507 Harrison. Our new kitchen will have room for the Co-op Deli as an anchor tenant and up to 3 incubator clients at a time. It will feature more dry storage, walk-in cooler and freezer, as well as new equipment and space for business meetings. The new Can-Do Kitchen will be home to our Future Chefs program as well as other Fair Food Matters cooking-based programs.

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.