The Farm & Food Business Incubator

EDUCATION + MENTORING + PROCESSING + NETWORKING = OPPORTUNITY

The Farm & Food Business Incubator (FFBI), a partnership between CADE and SUNY Cobleskill, provides a wide range of supportive services at no cost for new and developing farm and food entrepreneurs, with the goal of helping them launch and grow their businesses. As with all of CADE’s programs, our incubator services emphasize the values of sustainability, innovation, transparency, collaboration, and inclusion.

The Farm and Food Business Incubator is one of 20 Certified Business Incubators under New York’s NYSTAR program.

Our incubator offerings are tailored to each client’s individual needs, and range from support and training on business plan development to facilitating access to markets, resources, networks, and funding opportunities and ongoing business mentorship.

Our partnership with SUNY Cobleskill brings an additional dimension to the incubator, providing entrepreneurs seeking to develop value-added products and processes access to specialized facilities and staff resources.

Whether you are looking to establish a new enterprise, or expand and existing business, if this sounds like what you need, we look forward to working with you.

• Business planning

• Market planning

• Financial planning

• Access to capital

• Scaling up

• Planning for wholesale

• Food safety & quality control

• Online marketing & social media

• Branding, advertising & packaging

• Land access

• Legal support

• Other services, as necessary

The Farm & Food Business Incubator is a partnership of SUNY Cobleskill and CADE, with funding support from the Empire State Development through the Mohawk Valley Regional Economic Development Council.