JAN NIBJ: Pend Oreille Specialty Food Incubator brings small businesses to life
Sweet Heat workers produce a batch of jelly using Pend Oreille Specialty Foods Incubator's commercial kitchen.
Photo by JACK FREEMAN
Owner of Sweet Heat Derek Blumenschein pours a fresh batch of his pepper jelly into an automatic dispenser at the Pend Oreille Specialty Food Incubator's commercial kitchen.
Photo by JACK FREEMAN
PONDERAY — Buried in the back of the Bonner Mall, it’s not uncommon to find Derek Blumenschein and his employees making and canning his signature pepper jelly.
Blumenschein’s business, Sweet Heat, is based out of Bonners Ferry, but at least once a month he makes the trip down to Ponderay to utilize the Pend Oreille Special Foods Incubator. POSFI is a professional, licensed kitchen that allowed him to grow his operation from 60 jars of jelly a day to as much as 1,500, making his business viable.
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