Before she competed for the $10,000 prize on a recent episode of Food Network’s Family Recipe Showdown, Legenia Bearden found confidence in launching her spice business through the Cooperative Extension Service’s Share Grounds program.
“I’ve always wanted to cook on TV, since I was little,” Bearden said. “It’s nothing I ever really said out loud. But just being able to meet one of my goals, in getting my line of spices out through the Share Grounds program, it gave me the courage to take another step.”
Share Grounds is offered by the Cooperative Extension Service, part of the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture. For Arkansans interested in scaling up their home-based food business or becoming a value-added food producer, extension staff guide them step-by-step through the food safety standards and legal regulations of food entrepreneurship…