ATTENTION JJC CULINARY ARTS STUDENTS!
We are offering student discounts to current JJC Culinary Arts students on all of our kitchen packages. We know firsthand how expensive college can be, and we’d like to help out! Send us a message, shoot us an email, or if you really want to, you can give us a call to talk about how you can start using the Hive Kitchen to get your food items out for sale to the public!
Brunch Together! A cooking class for kids and adults (mom, dad, grandma, grandpa, aunt, whomever!)
In this hands-on brunch class, we will be learning how to make:
We’ll also be learning some basic knife skills, sanitation (no fingers in noses please!) and hopefully making some great new friends!
Please call us at 815-556-9511 or email us at info@happybellychefs.com with questions.
Class is limited to 12 people and open to kids age 8 and up.
Children must be accompanied by parent or guardian 18 or over, with an event ticket as well.
We look forward to cooking with you! Sign up here!
The Hive Creative Kitchen gets featured in the local media with a story by Kris Stadalsky in today’s Herald-News. Also making a special appearance are the ladies of Happy Belly as well!
The article gives a little bit of the back story as to how The Hive came about, what we’re doing now and perhaps what’s coming in the future. We’re just getting started.
A Farmers Market in Channahon was on the August 6th Board of Trustees meeting agenda and Jen and the Hive Kitchen participated in the discussion. You can read Jeanne Millsap’s article in the Herald-News here.
Stay tuned, more info to come on this!
Come to the Hive and learn the basics about home canning and Preserving from Drusilla Banks, the University Of Illinois Nutrition and Wellness Extension Educator. A presentation will be given on both water bath canning and pressure canning. Learn how to preserve the fruits and veggies from your summer garden to enjoy in the winter, or how you can make a profit from the excess produce you’ve grown!
We have space for 25 attendees to join us on Monday, August 20th from 9:30am-12:30pm. Tickets are $12.61 (includes eventbrite processing fee) and you can get yours by clicking here and using the password “canning”.
Light refreshments will be available.
Very exciting news for anyone who loves caramel (WHO DOESN’T?!) The Midwest Caramel Company is coming to Channahon!
Hand made caramel, turtles, caramel apples… stay tuned for their pop-up store at the Hive Kitchen!
Follow them on their Facebook page or check out their website at midwestcaramelcompany.com.
If you’re interested in checking out the Hive Kitchen to use for your food business, please contact us and we would be happy to set up a time!
Chef Kelly Bailey and Chef Cathy Lazuka make up Happy Belly Chefs, and we would like to welcome them to our kitchen! Kelly and Cathy are both professionally trained chefs and have been catering and giving culinary lessons for about ten years. If you or someone you know is looking for a caterer please pass along their information! Follow them on their Facebook page or check out their website at happybellychefs.com.
We are looking forward to seeing their work in Channahon/Minooka.
If you’re interested in checking out the Hive Kitchen to use for your food business, please contact us and we would be happy to set up a time!
I am working on getting a farmers market started in the parking lot of the Hive Kitchen on Saturday mornings. Anyone who becomes a user of the kitchen will be able to sell their products weekly in the market, at no additional charge. Stay tuned for more details on this. Hopefully this will be up and running not long after the kitchen opens.
In beekeeping, the hive is the collective, the community. The community works together on a daily basis to promote the wellbeing of their own colony, and in doing so the environment outside of the colony is enriched. Flowers and plants are pollinated, fruits and vegetables grow in greater abundance due to the teamwork of the bees in the hive.
Without the cooperation, communication and support of all of the bees in the colony, the hive fails. Only a strong, healthy hive can be productive.
We know this community is full of talented, creative people. Being creative isn’t always enough to get a business off the ground. Starting a business takes resources, especially money and time, and it means taking a risk that a lot of people aren’t comfortable enough to take. We are helping you minimize that risk here at The Hive to help get you going by building a kitchen space for you to rent when you need it without having to purchase expensive equipment and committing to a year long lease on your own.
Along the way we’d like to promote individuals who come to the Hive here in this space and on our social media pages to help give exposure and grow their ideas and start-up businesses. Want to be a part of this experiment? Let us know!
