Looking for a place to move your business or start a new one? We have openings in our FWorks office and Manufacturing building. For details on either, contact Mike Ritter at mritter@gjincubator.org or call (970)243-5242. Manufacturing Space Available Incentivized manufacturing space for entrepreneurs and product-based businesses looking for room to grow. Location: BIC Campus, [...]
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Business: Grand Valley Micro Farms, LLC Owner: Phil and Nate Strouse What does Grand Valley Micro Farms do? We grow and sell microgreens (fruit and vegetable shoots) that have short shelf lives (one to two weeks) and a greater nutrient quality score (NQS) per ounce than other forms of natural food. We produce tasty, [...]
Business: Evolve Behavioral Services, LLC Owners: Chantal Steele and Rachel Franke What does Evolve Behavioral Services do? Provides applied behavioral analysis to children in the Grand Valley. ABA is skill development for children to increase quality of life and decrease problem behaviors. What inspired you to start this business? The need for ABA in [...]
Shari Vandervelde’s husband realized, as a school psychologist, that children diagnosed with ADHD were not receiving the proper help they needed. After receiving an ADHD diagnosis, many children were given medications, but nobody offered to teach them the skills necessary to become successful students. Shari, being an educator, knew she had to come up [...]
Business: Happy Roots Plant Pots Owners: Rikki Cook and Marc Fiot What does Happy Roots Plant Pots do? Happy Roots designs, develops, manufactures, and sells unique and innovative bottom watering plant pots. What inspired you to start this business? As avid houseplant lovers, we struggled to find quality ceramic planters with proper drainage. We [...]
Martin Duarte (Project Manager), Lori Siegesmund (Owner), Michelle Powell (Office Manager) Business: SafeSpace Builders Owner: Lori Siegesmund SafeSpace Builders was brought to life when Lori realized there was a need for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliant construction specialists in the Grand Junction area. As Grand Junction’s population has been growing, the [...]
Business: Seeds Trust Owners: Julia Coffey & Alisha Wenger What does Seeds Trust do? Seeds Trust sells high-altitude and regionally adapted veggie, wildflower, native grass, and herb seed. What inspired you to start this business? The disappearing biodiversity. We want to strengthen regional seed supply and teach people to save seed for a more [...]
Business: Grand Jun Beverage Company Owner: Sarah Wood What does the Grand Jun Beverage Company do? Grand Jun Beverage Co is a fermented beverage manufacturing business. The first product is a Jun Kombucha. This is a fermented tea made with local Western Slope honey and organic green tea. It is a healthy carbonated beverage [...]
Business: JT Crane ServiceOwner: Jeff ThorntonJeff Thornton is a veteran and an equipment operator who had 12 years of crane operating experience and another five years of heavy equipment operator experience. However, something Jeff had limited experience with was starting and growing a business.“The classes and coaches [at the Grand Junction SBDC] have been essential [...]
