Carver Food Enterprise Center

Name: Carver Food Enterprise Center
Address: 9432 N. James Madison Highway Suite 106, Rapidan, VA, 22733, US
Telephone: +15407273435

Home
United States
Rapidan, VA
Carver Food Enterprise Center

Call Directions Website Contact the business

A shared commercial kitchen and food business incubator.

11/07/2026

☕🚚 Kim's Kitchen Spotlight is brewing up something GOOD! ☕💚

We're excited to give a warm Carver welcome to Bean's Coffee

With delicious handcrafted coffee, tasty specialty drinks, and a whole lot of small-town heart, Bean's is all about bringing people together, one cup at a time! ❤️

Whether you're looking for your morning caffeine fix or a little afternoon pick-me-up, be sure to check out this wonderful local business!

Let's give Bean's a latte love! ☕

11/06/2026

🚧🏊‍♀️ Coming Soon to Carver: Our Brand-New Indoor Swimming Pool! 😂
One lap only.
Just kidding. It's a trench drain for our new rotating rack oven. But for a few glorious days, we really thought we were getting into the spa business.

Construction at the Carver Food Enterprise Center is moving right along! We're watching our expanded kitchen take shape, one trench drain, wall, and piece of equipment at a time. We're hoping to have construction wrapped up by the end of the year, and we can't WAIT to welcome everyone into our newly expanded space in 2027!

None of this would be possible without the incredible community partners who stepped up to help us close our funding gap and bring this vision to life.

💚 A HUGE thank-you to:

EdgeCore, Culpeper Midday Lions Club, ServicePoint, Culpeper County, DataBank, FT Valley Farm, AECOM Tishman, and the PATH Foundation!

Your generosity is helping us build the food processing infrastructure our region needs to support local farmers, grow food businesses, expand Farm-to-School, and rescue even more food for our neighbors.

We're so grateful to have you in our corner. ❤️

And while the swimming pool didn't make the final plans, we promise the finished kitchen will be pretty spectacular anyway.

11/05/2026

🌈🥬 Too Pretty to Eat? Almost.

Would you LOOK at these gorgeous watermelon radishes grown by our friends at the Rapidan River Master Gardener ?!

Our volunteers diced these beauties and loaded them into the freeze dryer, where they'll become colorful, nutritious additions to our Feeding 500 ramen toppers.

And if you notice the plastic sheeting in the background... yes, we're still operating around construction! 😂

That giant hole in the kitchen floor? We've affectionately started calling it our new swimming pool. Unfortunately, it's just for plumbing.

Nothing like a little construction chaos to keep things interesting while we rescue food!

11/02/2026

Thinking about opening a food truck? Don't miss your chance to register for our series How to Start a Mobile Unit in Virginia!
🚚🍔🥗🥡🍦
The series walks you through every step of the process- from planning and market discovery to the required certifications and applications. With content from the Rappahannock-Rapidan Health District, Central Virginia Small Business Development Center - CV SBDC, and local Virginia food businesses, this series will help any future (or current) food truck owner navigate the mobile unit world!
The series is free and self-paced.

Registration is reoccurring and will reopen on the 1st of every month! ⬇️
Check our linktree in our bio to sign up!

11/01/2026

🥕🥣 When Life Gives You Carrot Puree... Make Soup!

Remember those hundreds of pounds of carrots we rescued right before last winter's snowstorm? We processed and froze them for a rainy day.

Well, somewhere along the way, our carrot puree got labeled " soup." So naturally, we decided to make the label accurate. : )

Our volunteers whipped up a 10-gallon test batch to fine-tune the recipe before scaling up for future Feeding 500 distributions.

And because apparently one project at a time is no longer our style, we did all this while processing spaghetti squash, freeze-drying radishes, navigating construction, AND welcoming a film crew from the PATH Foundation

We can't wait to see what they captured. 💚🎥

Photos by Camden Littleton for Virginia Cooperative Extension

10/31/2026

When Halloween is over, put those cleavers to good work by joining us in the kitchen for the annual pumpkin rush!

10/31/2026

🍰✨ KIM'S KITCHEN SPOTLIGHT IS BACK,! ✨🍰

And we're celebrating with a little something sweet! 💕

Please join us in welcoming one of our newest Carver Food Enterprise Center kitchen members, Sweet Karamel!

Specializing in decadent, individually packaged gourmet cake cans, Sweet Karamel is serving up some seriously tempting flavors-from Biscoff Cookie Butter and Chocolate Pistachio to Lemon Blueberry and Coconut Cake with Mango Compote. 🤤

And if cake in a can wasn't already enough to win us over, they also offer adorable mini banana loaves and treats for catering, celebrations, and special events!

We're always thrilled to welcome another creative food entrepreneur into our kitchen community, and we can't wait to see what Sweet Karamel cooks (or bakes!) up next.

💻 Shop: https://sweetkaramel.com
📸 Follow:

Let's give them a big Carver welcome! 💚

10/30/2026

🎓💚 Can we get a HUGE round of applause for our incredible CFEC Manager, Kim?!

Kim just graduated from the Center for Nonprofit Excellence's Emerging Leader Program, (although, we're not entirely sure how she managed to fit it into her life! )

Between kitchen construction, onboarding new businesses, keeping our operations running, emergency freezer repairs, raising a family as a single mom, and tackling a master's-level nonprofit leadership course, Kim somehow did it ALL.

But that's Kim. ❤️

She's a natural leader in the quietest, most wonderful way- someone who makes space for others to shine while never losing sight of our mission, her values, or what needs to get done. While being funny and kind. It is impressive!!

We couldn't be prouder of her, and we feel incredibly lucky to have her helping lead the Carver Food Enterprise Center into its next chapter.

Congratulations, Kim! We're so excited to see where your leadership takes you (although we're selfishly hoping it's right here with us for a very, VERY long time). 💚

10/29/2026

🍝🎃 Spaghetti Squash: Not Actually Spaghetti. Still Delicious.

Our Feeding 500 days have become quite the production! With our incredible volunteers, growing equipment capacity, and three fearless team leaders (Lenah, Kim, and Gretchen) we are getting quite good at dividing and conquering.

For our second October event, Empowering Culpeper had more spaghetti squash than they could distribute, so Doug loaded up his truck and brought the bounty our way! (All 350lbs!)

With help from our wonderful friends at Didlake, we roasted, scooped, and processed mountains of squash for future Feeding 500 meals.

Because spaghetti squash might not taste like spaghetti (despite what someone may have promised you 😂), but it's still delicious, and deserves a place on the plate!

Most photos by Camden Littleton for Virginia Cooperative Extension

Address

9432 N. James Madison Highway Suite 106
Rapidan, VA
22733

Telephone

+15407273435

Website

https://linktr.ee/gwcfec

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Carver Food Enterprise Center posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.