Strolling of the Heifers and SEON — the Sustainable Energy Outreach Network — are partnering to present a workshop to explore collaborative opportunities between businesses in the farm, food, green building and green technology sectors.
The meeting will take place on Tuesday, March 29 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Robert H. Gibson River Garden, 157 Main Street, in Brattleboro.
The event is the second workshop in the Windham Grows series — the first was “Tech Salad,” which brought together farm, food and technology entrepreneurs on March 3.
Like Tech Salad, the March 29 event will be facilitated by Nadav Malin, president of Building Green, Inc., a Brattleboro consultancy that gathers, organizes and publishes information about green building technologies for building industry professional and policy makers.”
The purpose of the meetup is for entrepreneurs to interact and engage in order to discover new business and collaboration opportunities made possible by the shared interests and challenges of each sector.
The organizers hope to uncover a handful of innovative ideas involving farms, food and green technology. Participants are invited to bring your thoughts about what they would like to change or do better in your business.
“From that, we’ll brainstorm a list of mutual opportunities, and see which attendees would like to champion these ideas going forward,” Malin said.
These workshops are the first phase of Windham Grows, a new Stroll program designed to help launch and grow businesses in the Windham County farm and food sector.
Windham Grows is being developed as a successor to the Farm/Food Business Planning Competition we have organized for many years. In Windham Grows, rather than receiving a check for a winning business plan, competitively-selected businesses will receive custom-tailored packages of mentoring and resources over a period of six to nine months, to help them through the startup or scale-up stage of their business.
Pizza and salad will be served at the meeting, which is free and open to any entrepreneurs in the Windham County food, agriculture or green building/green technology sectors.
To attend, please pre-register at www.strollingoftheheifers.com/greenbuildingmeetup.
(Or you can register by phone by calling the River Garden at 802-246-0982.)
