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Olive Branch Gardens seeks AFIN infrastructure match to scale food production

Albemarle County Economic Development Authority (EDA) · November 19, 2025
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Olive Branch Gardens (a small organic farm) asked the EDA to support a local match of $15,850.45 for an AFIN infrastructure grant to scale pizza production using a shared‑use kitchen; the state decision is due Dec. 15 and staff said they will pursue formal action only if the state awards the grant.

Olive Branch Gardens, a small organic farm that produces pizzas at a shared‑use commercial kitchen (Beacon Kitchen), requested support for an AFIN infrastructure application to scale equipment and production. Staff presented the farm’s planned equipment needs—dough divider and mounter, dough press, commercial freezer, generator and food processor—and said the operation…

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