Mission Mountain Food Enterprise Center at Lake County Community Development Center

The Mission Mountain Food Enterprise Center is a service site for the national FoodCorps organization. A FoodCorps service member is partnered at MMFEC. and collaborates with teachers to integrate food and nutrition education into their classrooms, with school and community members to start school gardens and garden-based education programs, and with food service directors and producers to get more local, healthy foods into schools.

Mission
Mission Mountain Food Enterprise Center’s mission is to enhance regional and state economic opportunities by providing client services to value added agriculture and specialty food businesses through the management and operation of a viable community-based food processing center.

Company Overview
Located directly in the heart of Ronan, Montana and covering over a ¼ of a city block, Lake County Community Development’s Mission Mountain Food Enterprise Center is a fully functioning food processing, research and development facility. The food processing facility is inspected by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and Montana Department of Agriculture Organic Program.

Description
We are proud that Mission Mountain Food Enterprise Center has contributed to the success of food businesses such as: Amazing Grains, Dave and Paul's, Fat Robin Orchard and Farm, Flathead Lake Cheese Company, Flathead Lake Winery, Gluten Free Mama, Missoula Community Food Co-op, Montana Coffee Traders, Montana Poultry Growers Cooperative, Mrs. Wonderful, The Orchard at Flathead Lake, Polson Farmers Market, Silent Creations Buffalo Products, Tipu’s Chai, Thunderhead, LLC, Uncle Bill’s Sausages, Western Montana Growers Cooperative, Western Montana Specialty Foods, West Paw Design, and Western Trails.

General Information
Food Hub, Non-Profit, Shared use kitchen facility