What’s New
With the adoption of our new Area Plan comes some minor changes to our project focus. While we continue to emphasis agriculture development in the region, we will expand our focus to also include forestry and water resource issues.
The River Valley Agriculture Commission is now implementing its recently completed economic development plan for agriculture in the region. Other communities are becoming interested in the value of agriculture commissions to help focus efforts on agriculture development. If you are interested in learning more about agriculture commissions please see these two documents, Agriculture Commission Guidelines and Agriculture Commission Talking Points or call/email the office.
Threshold to Maine is currently coordinating a state wide coalition interested in establishing shared use kitchens.
Maine’s Shared Use Kitchen Coalition
See our new Shared Use Kitchen Coalition Page.
Recently Adopted Projects
Strong/Phillips/ Avon Agriculture CommissionTo support the creation of an Agriculture Commission for the Strong, Phillips and Avon communities and to draft an economic development plan for the region.
Lovell Agriculture Commission
To support the creation of an Agriculture Commission for the Lovell area in Oxford County and to draft an economic development plan for the region.Rumford Shared Use Commercial Kitchen
To provide technical assistance to the River Valley Agriculture Commission on the design, business planning, and financing of a shared use commercial kitchen at the River Valley Technology Center.Franklin County Agriculture Initiative
The project is intended to establish a Franklin county wide economic development strategy to support agriculture and will start with the creation of a “Blue Ribbon” Commission. Threshold To Maine is being asked to provide technical assistance on the development of agriculture commissions and facilitation and coordination of the process.IRIS Network Shared Use Commercial Kitchen
The project is to help the IRIS Network, a non-profit providing services to visually impaired people, use an existing commercial kitchen as a shared use facility. Technical assistance will be provide on developing policy and procedures, all the necessary paper work and finding suitable clients.
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