The College of Maine Cooperative Extension will provide a web-based workshop for entrepreneurs and farmers serious about beginning a home-based specialty meals enterprise in Maine from 9 am to midday on February 15.

Recipe to Market is a multidisciplinary program meant to introduce members to the important thing points that an aspiring entrepreneur ought to contemplate earlier than beginning a meals enterprise. Instructors will cowl matters corresponding to enterprise fundamentals; specialty meals business and product growth; licenses and laws; and meals safety. Gadgets that could be mentioned embrace non-perishable canned items (jams/jellies/preserves, baked items, condiments, sauces, sauces, puddings), fermented meals, dry mixes, and sweet/confections.

Instructors for this system embrace UMaine Extension professor emeritus Louis Bassano; Jim McConnon, Emeritus Professor of Economics and Extension; and Extension Meals Science Specialist, Professor of Meals Science and Director of UMaine Meals Testing Providers Beth Calder.

The price is $35; registration required. Monetary help is offered. Register and discover extra particulars on the occasion registration web page. For extra data or to request an affordable lodging, please contact Melissa Libby Babcock, melissa.libby1@maine.edu; 207.581.2788 or 800.287.0274 (Maine solely).