This EDA investment supports boone memorial hospital, INC

This $1,622,816 Economic Development Administration project grant funds Boone Memorial Hospital, Inc. to construct and operate the Madison Farmers Market and Greenhouse in Madison, West Virginia. The market and greenhouse will allow local farmers and small business owners to sell a wide variety of agricultural products. An on-site mobile kitchen will host skills training, entrepreneurship, health and life skills courses. The EDA funding will support local economic development and innovation in an area impacted by coal industry decline and the COVID-19 pandemic through job creation and retention. The EDA grant falls under the agency's Economic Adjustment Assistance program, which provides technical and infrastructure assistance to regions facing adverse economic changes.

With constructing and establishing the madison farmers market and greenhouse in downtown madison, including freezers and a mobile kitchen. This new resource will allow for farmers and small business owners to sell a wide variety of products at the farmers market. The mobile kitchen will be used to hold comprehensive education courses on skills RE-training, entrepreneurship, life skills, healthy eating, and building sustainable healthy habits. The project will assist with local economic development and rural innovation in an area severely impacted by the decline in the coal industry and the covid-19 pandemic by enhancing job creation and retention in an area, which will advance economic resiliency throughout the region.