The statewide Kentucky Innovation Network recently set up the Pikeville Innovation Office to serve eight Eastern Kentucky counties. Assistant Director Justin Prater stopped by WMMT to talk about various ways the network can assist small businesses and entrepreneurs to start up or improve their current operations, including participating in pitch sessions with Angel Investors. [wpdm_file […]
Encouraging a new generation of Appalachian leaders while working to diversify the regional economy? That is the goal of the Appalachian Transition Fellowship Program. The first class of Fellows, fourteen young people from throughout the region, recently started working with nonprofits, governments and businesses in six states on projects that create jobs and livelihoods. Mountain Talk host Mimi […]
The Letcher County Farmers’ Market is the first in Kentucky, and likely the first in the entire country, to offer free meals cooked on site from market vegetables to children 18 and under. The Farmers’ Market celebrated with its many partners including the Letcher County School System, US Department of Agriculture, KY Department of Education, […]
The SOAR Working Group on Agriculture, Community and Regional Foods, and Natural Resources held a Listening Session in Letcher County, KY on June 19. After a discussion of the strengths, weaknesses and opportunities for economic development and job creation in local foods and forestry, folks in the group offered their ideas for what would help the area.[wpdm_file […]
