Accelerator Kitchen

The Incubator Kitchen Program is designed to help scale production and solidify operations for new food businesses. It offers a flexible overhead by utilizing the commercial shared-use Maker Kitchen, powered by Lake Trust, to lower the cost of entry and risk for entrepreneurs. Participants follow a program curriculum and have access to one-on-one mentorship, connections to local resources, event space, training and certifications, as well as opportunities to sell their products, like at the weekly farmers market or at ELFCO! 

In 2021, the Rathbun Accelerator Kitchen was added to create the next step in the pipeline for local food businesses by offering more exclusive access to production space, with a full time retail store front on the block. As participants graduate to this intermediate space they begin taking on some more operational responsibility than the Maker Kitchen.