Public Resources

Whether you’re starting a food business, growing an existing operation, or looking for help with the next step, this resource library brings together useful tools, programs, and organizations for local producers. Explore resources for business setup and licensing, food safety and compliance, insurance, equipment and operations, financial planning, food access programs, and marketing your business.

Inspections and Codes

Access Resources and Technology for Business Operations

Educational Resources for Establishing and Running Your Business

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Acquiring a Business License

  • Business Licenses - Requirement serves the public interest by mandating that business will be carried on in compliance with applicable laws and in a manner that protects the public’s health, safety, and welfare. | Newport Oregon Government

  • Special Event License - A special event is any private activity that takes place entirely or partly on public property and requires city services, such as street or park closures, traffic control, or facility use. Examples include parades, festivals, shows, sales, and other similar activities. Events on private or other public property that require city services are also considered special events.| Newport Oregon Governmen

Inspections and Codes

  • Inspections and Codes - The City of Newport provides information and services to help property owners, contractors, and residents understand and comply with building regulations and local codes. Use the resources here to schedule inspections, report concerns, and access building requirements. | Newport Oregon Government

Obtain Product, Liability, and Worker’s Insurance

Educational Resources for Establishing and Running Your Business

  • Oregon SBDC's Small Business Management (SBM) Program - Program is a 9-month certificate program designed to help business owners build stronger, more profitable businesses through expert-led training, practical tools, and personalized guidance with one-on-one advising. | Oregon Business Development Department and Oregon Coast Community College.

  • Small Business Advising (available by appointment) - Prospective or current business owners can take advantage of no-cost, confidential, one-on-one business advising and low-cost business courses. | Oregon Coast Community College Small Business Development Center

  • Business Support Resources -Oregon has the support organizations to give you the knowledge and the expertise to compete at the highest level. Whatever your questions or problems, there’s an experienced, professional Oregonian here to help. | Economic Development Alliance of Lincoln County

  • Business Oregon - Business Oregon is the state's economic development agency. The Business Oregon Commission oversees the agency's activities to ensure a coherent, integrated approach to economic development and a continuous policy direction that can transcend changes in executive and legislative leadership. | Business Oregon- State of Oregon

  • Lincoln County OSU Extension Service- Providing training to farmers and ranchers in the area. | Oregon State University

  • Commercial Fishing Resources-‍ Sea Grant works with the fishing industry to understand and communicate the resilience and sustainability of important Pacific Northwest coastal and marine species. Commercial fisheries face several challenges, including increased regulation, an aging fleet, and changing environmental conditions. Informs decision-makers and the public about Oregon fisheries and how the community affects local seafood production and consumption. | Oregon Sea Grant

Ensure Food Safety Compliance & Risk Management

  • Seafood HACCP Alliance - The “Alliance” is a collaborative training program involving representation from three federal agencies (the Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Department of Agriculture-CSREES, and U.S. Department of Commerce-Seafood Inspection Program), the Interstate Shellfish Sanitation Conference, and the seafood industry trade associations, National Fisheries Institute and Seafood Products Association. These programs are linked in a cooperative partnership with expertise and trainers from numerous academic, Extension Service and Sea Grant College programs across the nation. | Association of Food and Drug Officials

  • Seafood HACCP - Overview, guidance, and regulations . | U.S. Food and Drug Administration

  • Accredited Lincoln County Food Handlers -The State of Oregon requires every commercial food worker involved in public food handling and preparation to get a certified food handlers card. | Oregon Food Handlers

  • FSMA Rules & Guidance for Industry -Rules and Guidance for Industry related to the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). | U.S. Food and Drug Administration

  • Seafood Network Information Center -Consumer seafood information, Seafood industry information, and Seafood safety. | Oregon State University

  • Food Processing and Packaging Course -Identify the key issues for processing and packaging systems to preserve the food quality and safety over the shelf life of diverse food product categories. | (Not Free) Cornell Course

Access Resources and Technology for Business Operations

  • Financial Projections for Small Businesses - Offers financial projection templates for raising investment, securing an SBA loan, and internal planning. The company also offers custom Certified Public Accountant (CPA) support for raising capital and business planning. | Projection Hub

  • Small Business Valuation Report - A valuation platform that can help you calculate, understand, and negotiate your company’s value. | Equidam

  • Square Point-of-Sale (POS) System - A free POS system designed to help small food businesses and retail stores sell in-store and online, with tools for inventory management, sales, and staffing. | Square Pay

  • Toast Point-of-Sale (POS) System -Toast is a POS system that supports food businesses with taking orders, processing payments, and managing their business. | Toast

Infrastructure & Equipment

  • Webstaurant Store- A large online restaurant supply store servicing professionals and individual customers. | Webstaurant Store

  •  Affordable Vacuum Bags - Bags compatible with commercial vacuum sealing machines. Ideal for processing fish | Vacuum Sealer Unlimited

  • Vacuum Bags- Bags compatible with commercial vacuum sealing machines. Ideal for sourcing oxygen permeable bags. | Frontier Packaging

  • Bulk Boxes- Box company in Portland. | Carton Service

Become a SNAP or WIC Food Vendor

  • SNAP Retailer Eligibility -Check to see if your store is eligible to provide SNAP benefits. | USDA Food and Nutrition Service

  • SNAP Retailer Training Requirements - When you apply to be a SNAP retailer, there are certain training requirements that must be met. This website provides information on training through guides, videos, and other resources. | USDA Food and Nutrition Service

Promote Your Food Business

  • Chamber of Commerce - A unified business voice as challenges and opportunities come. Biz Blurbs is an email communication channel to more than 5,000 business professionals. Biz Blurbs provides a tool for your business to share news and promotional information. Members may display their brochures and/or business cards inside the Visitor Information Center and website. | Greater Newport Chamber of Commerce

  • Central Coast Food Trail - A collaborative effort to connect locals and visitors to the bounty available on Oregon’s Central Coast. Supporting local food is a way to support our communities and the producers & crafters that work hard to grow and use our local ingredients. | Travel Oregon

Create Marketing Collateral, Emails, and Websites

Producer Glossary

  • Caravan Farm + Kitchen

    Caravan Farm & Kitchen is a Wife and Husband owned and operated chef driven farm. Growing produce to create beautiful food and beverages for the community, through pop-ups, events and take away food products. We are a new farm, breaking ground in May 2025, we have focused on building infrastructure and improving soil health during our first season and have had our first successful crops. Supporting other local farms and food producers has been a key to starting our food service operations utilizing fresh, local, organic ingredients and always giving credit for the amazing ingredients that we have been able to source.

  • Elk City Coffee

    Head of OperationOur coffee beans are roasted in the foothills of the Oregon coast, utilizing an off-the-grid approach to give our coffee a unique taste. Our coffee beans come from Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Papua New Guinea, Peru, and Swiss Water Decaf, offering customers a wide range of flavors. Furthermore, Elk City Coffee is committed to ethical sourcing and sustainability, with 90% of their coffee beans being Fair Trade Organic and 50% from farms supporting education and training for coffee farmers.

  • Euchre Creek Farm

    Euchre Creek Farm is a 117 acre, regenerative focused farm just 6 miles inland from the Central Oregon Coast. Since taking over management and starting the farm business in 2018, Sara O'Neill has focused on building a system that utilizes land, water, and animal resources wisely to produce food that she feels proud to offer her chosen community. The animals are rotationally grazed on grass and legume pastures, creating a beautiful mild-flavored meat that is praised by home cooks and chefs alike.

  • F/V Miss Yvonne

    The crew of the F/V Miss Yvonne fishes for more than a living. We fish for the love of the ocean, the pride of hard work, and the joy of sharing wild, sustainable seafood with people who care about what they eat. From our home port on Dock 5 in Newport, Oregon, we brave rough waters to bring in albacore tuna, Oregon rockfish, halibut, lingcod, and black cod, harvested with respect for the sea.

    Every fish we sell is gutted, gilled, filleted, blast frozen, and vacuum sealed by us or trusted local partners. Our smoked and canned products are processed right here in Oregon by other small businesses we proudly support.

  • Farm For Our Lives

    Farm For Our Lives is a micro farm that grew out of Korrie & Robert’s love for farming, community and each other. In 2021 we moved our farm to the beautiful banks of the Alsea River. We use sustainable farming practices that focus on soil health to produce high yields of Non-GMO nutrient dense produce. Other market offerings include bouquets, pastured pork cuts, pasture raised chicken eggs, jams and seasoned salts.

  • Frog Hallow Farm

    Located along Alsea Bay in Waldport, Oregon, Frog Hollow Farm is entering its 34th season this year. In the garden we grow artichokes, lettuce, edible flowers, garlic, greens and root crops. We also have a dedicated indoor farm for microgreens and seed starting.

  • Grass Rivers at Gibson Farms

    A fourth generation family farm producing blueberries, pasture-raised beef, and hay. Pasture-raised beef.

  • Hazelton Farms

    Hazelton Farms is a family owned farm raising Tibetan yaks on pasture. Our yak is grass-fed and all of their feed is sourced locally. We provide our animals with a happy and interesting life, they are not bored and are well fed. Yak meat tastes more like elk than beef, not in a gamey way, but in that it's lean, red, and mild flavored.

  • Little Fish Fine Seafood

    Expertly sourced local seafood by a dwindling breed of folks who love to live and work on the ocean. It's a difficult, dangerous profession, but the nothing beats a great day at sea.

    Most of our fish is blast frozen immediately after butchering so that it maintains it's freshness rather than sit in the refrigerated case for more than a couple of days. In our opinion, it's better than fish caught over two-three days ago and it is quick to thaw in the fridge or under cool water if in a hurry.

  • Local Ocean Seafoods

    Local Ocean was started in 2002 by two Newport fisherfolk with an idea to showcase the best of Oregon’s seafood and create a new place for local fishermen to sell their catch. Founder Laura Anderson came from a fishing family, and Al Pazar was a long-time fisherman. Fresh out of college, Anderson had the time and creative inspiration to start and grow the new venture, and Pazar, with two fishing boats and deep relationships to the fleet, could guarantee the quality seafood supply they needed.

    When our doors first opened in 2005, the vision was “a fish market with a little restaurant attached.” Thankfully, our customers had a bigger aspiration for us. 20 years later, we are one of the most celebrated restaurants on the Oregon coast and are loved by seafood eaters around the world.

    Today Local Ocean's is owned by the Local Ocean Stewardship Trust. The Trust is a form of employee ownership. It ensures that the company will forever continue to source direct from local fishers and showcase our local species.

  • Lovin Seafoods

    The F/V Equalizer is owned by Steve Lovin -- whether it is chasing Albacore tuna, Dungeness crab, halibut, salmon, or sablefish, the Equalizer is a symbol of Steve's dedication to the ocean and it's bounty.

    Committed to quality by ensuring that each catch is harvested to the highest standard. Steve works with select Newport commercial fishing fleets, including his own vessel, to bring the ocean to your plate.

  • My Little Garden

    My Little Garden is a Latina owned small farm outside of Corvallis. She supplies restaurants in the area prioritizing seasonal menus sourcing local ingredients. 

  • OO-Nee Sea Ranch

    The process begins with divers who carefully harvest large purple urchins off the coast of Oregon. Divers can collect a few hundred pounds a day, which are transported by boat to the ranch. The urchins are then cleaned, held in live tanks, and nourished in raceways until they’re ready for processing.

    The urchins are shucked next door at the Central Coast Food Web, packed in saltwater trays, and delivered to restaurants in Portland and Seattle.

    This approach is known as ranching and offers multiple benefits:
    - Restores kelp forests by removing overabundant urchins
    - Provides a consistently high-quality product for consumers
    - Supports sustainable seafood markets and economic opportunities along the Oregon coast

  • Populist Farm

    Populist Farm is a family-operated, pasture-based dairy located just four miles from the Oregon coast in Florence. Situated on 100 acres of pastureland, we raise grass-fed beef, heritage pork, non-GMO pasture-raised chickens and eggs, and raw milk dairy products.

  • Safe Harbor Seafoods

    Safe Harbor Seafoods is the direct to consumer arm of the 40 foot fishing vessel Jo El based out of Newport, Oregon focused on quality and sustainability. We are a family owned business founded in 2018.

    We use only hand caught hook and line fisheries and all our tuna is blast frozen at sea to be sushi grade.

  • Sourdough Shenanigans

    Sourdough Shenanigans focuses on hand mixed artisanal sourdough breads. Using high quality Wheat Montana flour as well as grinding wheat berries fresh in house, the very finest coastal sourdough comes to life with the addition of my sourdough culture, named Flora. Now about 9 years old, she brings a satisfying flavor profile to every loaf and is the star of the show.

  • The Reclaim Cooperative

    The Reclaim Cooperative is democratically operated by members that create the products and profits are shared based on hours contributed

    We are committed to the innovative creation and distribution of sustainable, handcrafted products made from reclaimed byproducts, like fish skin, promoting environmental stewardship and supporting local economies. Our first and current project is taking locally caught ling cod skins and turning them into a beautiful and durable leather. Using this ling cod leather, we have made bracelets, bookmarks, stickers, and more that you can find on CCFW's LocalFood Marketplace.

  • Tidewater Provisions

    Welcome to our orchard on the Oregon Coast! Tucked along the Alsea River, our apple trees were planted in the 70s by an OSU Master Gardener. Beyond apples, we’re experimenting with unique produce and crafting delicious food with everything we grow.
    We’re working on releasing small-batch apple butter (keep an eye out for a gochujang-spiced version!) and cider syrup coming soon. 🍏✨

    We’re just getting started, so follow and come along for the ride with Tidewater Provisions.

  • Walker Farms

    Established in 2005 by Randy and Sarah Walker, Walker Farms is nestled on 19 acres of fertile land, just 1.9 miles up Logsden Road heading east from the town of Siletz. Situated between the lush forest and the fast-flowing Siletz River, our farm aims to provide Lincoln County, Oregon, with humanely raised lamb at affordable prices. We boast an array of canned jams, jellies, and vacuum-packed handmade sauerkraut.

    Lamb feeds on pasture grass and legumes. Ewes receive additional grain during gestation and motherhood. Renowned for its quality, our lamb remains competitively priced. We take pride in offering humanely raised animal products to the community.

    At Walker Farms, we offer a diverse range of jams, jellies, pickled products, including our handmade fresh sauerkraut. Expanding our fruit and vegetable cultivation on-site, we source the majority of our produce locally, often from Oregon farms.