{"id":1352,"date":"2017-08-31T15:57:09","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T19:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onemontgomerygreen.org\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=1352"},"modified":"2017-08-31T15:57:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T19:57:09","slug":"tpss-community-kitchen-grand-opening","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/onemontgomerygreen.org\/index.php\/calendarevent\/tpss-community-kitchen-grand-opening\/","title":{"rendered":"TPSS Community Kitchen Grand Opening!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 32px; color: #008000;\"><strong>Takoma Park Silver Spring Community Kitchen Grand Opening!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Most small-scale food business entrepreneurs lack the capital to invest in their own production facilities, and rental costs at the handful of available commercial kitchen establishments in the DC area are prohibitive \u2014 especially for low-income producers. So Crossroads developed the\u00a0shared-use<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crossroadscommunityfoodnetwork.org\/tpss-community-kitchen\/\"><strong>\u00a0Takoma Park Silver Spring Community Kitchen\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>to help meet the needs of small-scale food entrepreneurs. Come celebrate\u00a0the\u00a0<strong>grand opening<\/strong>\u00a0of the kitchen\u00a0with us on Saturday, September 16!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">The 1,120 square-foot kitchen and storage facility meets all local health and safety requirements governing food produced for sale to the public, and provides much needed food preparation space to those who have completed or are enrolled in Crossroads\u2019\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crossroadscommunityfoodnetwork.org\/what-we-do\/microenterprise-training-program\/\">Microenterprise Training Program<\/a><\/strong>. To date, 61 people have completed the 10-week series of free, bilingual business training workshops. The kitchen will also serve the community in food recovery efforts and by offering cooking and nutrition classes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Are you an aspiring food entrepreneur?\u00a0<\/strong>The next\u00a0session of the\u00a0Microenterprise Training Program<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>training is full, but if\u00a0you\u2019re\u00a0interested in participating in a future session,\u00a0please\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1131612385\">send an email to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:kitchen@crossroadscommunityfoodnetwork.org\">kitchen@crossroadscommunityfoodnetwork.org<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Takoma Park Silver Spring Community Kitchen Grand Opening! 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