WHEELING FOOD HUB

Are you trying to grow your food business? Are you dreaming of starting a brand new operation?

GrowOV is currently working with local farmers, entrepreneurs, and experts to collaboratively design a facility that best meets their needs. Construction on the project is set to start by the end of the year.

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Starting and growing a small food-business is hard. Start-up costs are often prohibitively high, knowledge and resources are hard to find. It doesn’t have to be this way! 

GrowOV is constructing the Wheeling Food Hub to assist small farmers and food businesses with the equipment, resources, and guidance they need to grow. The goal is to provide everything needed to turn a famrer’s harvest or a restaurantuer’s dish into value-added, shelf-stable products on grocery store shelves. 

The Wheeling Food Hub will offer:

A Shared Commercial Kitchen Facility 
Rentable commercial kitchen spaces allow businesses to expand the types of food produced and increase the scale and efficiency of production and distribution. Our facility will be a fully equipped, licensed and affordable collaborative space to start and grow businesses by lessening individual financial risk.

Support For Farmers & Food Entrepreneurs 
This facility will meet the diverse needs of regional food and farm entrepreneurs to start or expand businesses to produce, process, pack, brand, and distribute locally-made food. ​Turn tomatoes into salsa, complete with professional packaging and branding, ready to reach new markets like grocery store shelves. ​