ACEnet News Story Archive

Share your ideas! Join ACEnet, Project for Public Spaces & the Athens Farmers Market for a public workshop to discuss future site plans for the Athens Farmers Market. Thanks to a federal grant from the USDA, the Athens Farmers Market may have a permanent home. The City of Athens and ACEnet seek community input for the development of a ten acre plot of land on the Community Center property.

As part of the grant, a national ... Read More

ACEnet ServSafe Food Protection Manager Training/Certification 

This 2-day training will take place 9am – 5pm on October 9th & 10th at ACEnet on Columbus Road in Athens.

Registration is $100 for ACEnet members, $125 for non-members and will include:

o   2-day classroom training

o   Slideshow presentation style including video presentations

o   Notebooks, folders and writing utensils will be provided

o   Testing materials will be provided

o   Lunch is included

Attendees will receive their ServSafe Food Protection Manager Certification.

Register here for this opportunity: https://tinyurl.com/acenet-servsafe

For more info or questions, contact ACEnet ... Read More

Check out our new 3-part blog series – Running a Small Business in Southeast Ohio takes Hard Work in our Community Updates section!

Meet the entrepreneurs & hear their stories; blog series kicks off with Glouster’s Gina Gabriel and Congress Run Greenhouse (1/3).

Part 2 of our blog series introduces you to Perry County’s Henry Jochem and Primaterra Farm  (2/3).

The third and final part of our blog series introduces you to Jackson County’s Derrick & Elise Allison ... Read More

Are you looking for affordable office space or warehouse space? ACEnet has some openings in both our Athens & Nelsonville facilities! Check out our Available Rental Space page for more info & virtual tours.

We are excited to invite you to ACEnet’s 3rd Annual Women in Business conference on May 17th, 2019 from 8:00 AM – 3:00 PM at The Lodge at Hocking College in Nelsonville! This free event will unite women entrepreneurs in all stages of business development for a one day conference that has three main objectives:

To provide a space for networking so women entrepreneurs can create and feel a greater sense of community. To provide professional development ... Read More

ACEnet receives Farm Aid funding for 2019!

The Farm Aid grant program, started by country and rock stars Willie Nelson, Neil Young, and John Mellencamp, is providing 2019 funding to Athens-based non-profit ACEnet to keep family farmers on the land. The money, $6,000, has been awarded to ACEnet’s Food & Farm Enterprise program.

This $6,000 Farm Aid grant will increase ACEnet’s Food Ventures staff’s capacity to provide livestock and specialty crop farmers in Appalachia Ohio the resources ... Read More

Tim Martin, owner of ACEnet tenant Red Tail Design Co. recently led a workshop on best practices for having a successful website for your small business. We’d like to share his presentation with you:

Click to view or download. 8.9mb PDF

NELSONVILLE — ACEnet unveiled a food processing facility for both meat and produce at its new Food and Farm Enterprise Center on Friday in Nelsonville.

ACEnet, which stands for Appalachian Center for Economic Networks, is a business incubator with locations in both Athens and Nelsonville. It offers guidance and work space for local entrepreneurs.

This new facility in Nelsonville is split into two sections to process both vegetables and meat. The site cost a total of ... Read More

The Appalachian Center for Economic Networks (ACEnet) is pleased to announce that the organization has received 2018 funding from the Farm Aid grant program. Farm Aid is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to keep family farmers on the land. A program started by musicians Willie Nelson, Neil Young and John Mellencamp, each year the proceeds from Farm Aid’s annual concert and their generous community of donors are granted to IRS 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations working to strengthen family farm ... Read More

ACEnet held our first annual Holiday Open House at the beginning of December! Guests were invited to visit our Food Ventures Center’s shared-use kitchen and the facilities and businesses surrounding it to meet ACEnet staff & clients, learn about the work we do in our community & support some of the small, local businesses ACEnet calls clients.

After entering the Food Ventures building through the Ohio is Home retail space, also the home of Red Tail Design ... Read More