The training is highly interactive and participatory. The goal is the development of a sound business plan that includes the necessary business planning and analysis that provides a road map to success for the entrepreneur. It helps people set goals and determine whether their business can achieve them. They discover if their business can support them and their family. Initially the project is working with Benedictine College, a 900-student college, to market products direct from the farm to the table of the college's food cafeteria.
Plans are to also market to hospitals, and nursing homes in the region.
Previous and current year funding provided by grants from USDA Rural Development. During the three years the program has been operating 106 people have completed the group business training. A total of 32 new or expanded small businesses have been completed that created 70 new jobs. This is a successful program that is now being looked at in Kansas as a model for other areas and organizations to replicate. The program and staff have been involved with forming the Kansas Microenterprise Opportunity Network.