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Chesapeake Harvest Processing Facility by contributing your responses to a few simple survey questions.
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Targeted Markets
Institutional • Wholesale • Food Banks
SPECIALTY CROPS
Processing, sorting, and Individual Quick Freezing (IQF) of fresh cut produce and specialty crops into 1lb, 2lb bags and 20 lb cases.
• Creating a more resilient and sustainable local food system
• Creating new markets for Delmarva producers
• Providing easier and plentiful access to local, nutritious food
• Extending the growing season by providing year-round access to local nutritious food
• Providing farmers with new larger scale, single customer contracts
• Meeting local product procurement needs for schools and institutional systems
•Additional items include herbs and algae
SEAFOOD PROTEIN
Processing oysters and blue catfish through IQF, freeze drying, dehydration, and smoking.
Creating a more resilient and sustainable local food system
• Creating new markets for Delmarva waterman a boutique oyster growers
• Providing easier and plentiful access to local, nutritious food
• Complimenting Specialty Crops with a protein component
• Creating added value, higher profit products from commodity raw seafoods
• Helping reduce the invasive and destructive blue catfish population in the Chesapeake Ba