How to start a canning business out of your home with local produce

Jul 22
Jul 22 Preserving and Canning Time

America Eats Project, Food Writing, Martha’s Vineyard History, Massachusetts History

How to come up with additional sources of revenue and rural settings. Starting today were doing a deep dive into the culture of berry picking and canning interweaving the history of the tradition and stories from other parts of the globe and North America.

Nov 17

Nov 17 Canning on Martha’s Vineyard

Frederick Douglass Opie

Baking, Culinary Entrepreneurship, Food Writing, Gardening, Martha’s Vineyard History

How to make a profit from the surplus from your garden

Oct 20

Oct 20 Root Cellars

Food Prof Fred Opie

If you grow and harvest root vegetables properly, you can greatly reduce the amount of money you spend on produce as well as provide you and your family with nutritious food year-round. Many of us live in homes that have root cellars. Get yourself

Mar 22

Mar 22 The Business of Baking

Food Prof Fred Opie

Here is today’s take away: an inexpensive product like baked bread why even like more so what you can do in many different ways with a great biscuit should not be overlooked. I call biscuits the utility retail food that can be sold at breakfast lunch and dinner. There’s so inexpensive the make and they can be mass-produced if done well. As we’ve said this entire week on the series on baking and making butter, the key is . . .

Jan 3

Jan 3 Food Stories from Martha's Vineyard Part 3

Food Prof Fred Opie

So what are the take aways? Start small and build your business as you go cash flowing it’s growth instead of taking out bank loans which add unneeded pressure on entrepreneurs. One of the best ways to open a retail space where you live is . . .