Flavors, Prince George’s County’s first culinary incubator, received $497,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to expand its programming to BIPOC growers, farmers, and food business enterprises over the next two years.
The grant, via the Local Food Promotion Program, will be used to build out and deliver a formalized technical incubator and develop a Flavors web and app-based virtual education platform. The goal is to bring more people of color into the culinary business space through an easily accessible online curriculum and attract local farmers so that when culinary entrepreneurs source food the dollars circulate longer and further in the community.
“We’d like to see more Black and brown food and beverage brands,” Samia Bingham, Flavors’ founder, and CEO, said. “More profitable Black and brown food and beverage brands throughout the DMV region where they are able to open up their own brick and mortars, they’re able to go into e-commerce. They are able to be on…
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