Vitality in the Valley Exhibitors

Mía’s Cocina is a New York-based, MWBE-certified food manufacturing and specialty dessert company focused on producing premium Puerto Rican-inspired products for retail, wholesale, hospitality, and event markets. Founded in 2021, the company is best known for its handcrafted gourmet flan packaged in signature glass jars that combine cultural authenticity with elevated presentation.

Mía’s Cocina is committed to preserving traditional Caribbean flavors while developing scalable, modern food products that meet today’s consumer demand for quality, storytelling, and artisanal experiences. The company actively participates in regional food innovation, entrepreneurship, and supplier diversity initiatives, creating opportunities for cultural rep

At Pursuit, our mission is simple: we’re empowering businesses in all communities by providing access to affordable loans and resources so that they can reach higher, transform, and grow. This transformation may start with an individual borrower, but ultimately extends into the broader community, taking shape as new employment opportunities, economic development, and positive change.

Through our work, we’re striving to create a more inclusive economy by ensuring every business owner has a path to success.

Our mission guides our lending. When you work with us, you’ll have access to a community-focused lender that’s invested in providing the best possible small business loan for you now, and in the future.

B-Blossom is a plant-based food company born from a passion for healthy cuisine. We aim to provide with a unique, high-level culinary experience, using the freshest and most locally source products and ingredients and innovative cooking techniques in all that we serve.
We develop recipes utilizing plant-based ingredients that environmentally friendly.

The New York State Pollution Prevention Institute (NYSP2I) helps businesses, municipalities, and institutions improve sustainability and operational efficiency through pollution prevention (P2) strategies. NYSP2I provides technical assistance, research, training, and implementation support focused on reducing waste, energy and water use, emissions, and hazardous materials while improving economic and environmental performance.

Your DOL’s mission is to provide outstanding services to our customers - the workers and businesses that call New York home. We help New Yorkers find the careers they will love by connecting them to employment, training, and up-skilling opportunities. We build and support New York’s businesses, helping them find qualified workers and keeping them informed about tools and incentives to make their businesses thrive.
Registered apprenticeship offers businesses a highly skilled workforce and a pipeline of qualified workers through a structured and consistent training program. Explore our upgraded Apprenticeship Services system and discover if the registered apprenticeship program is right for your business.

The Institute for Rural Vitality at SUNY Cobleskill Ag & Tech is the outward-facing division of SUNY Cobleskill Ag & Tech. Our work focuses on entrepreneurship, training and credentials, shared-use facilities, economic development efforts, and using our farm to help feed our campus community. At our core, the IRV supports entrepreneurs, strengthens local businesses, educates the workforce, and helps drive New York’s economic growth.

We’re a supply chain aggregator with a unique edge—we own and operate our own warehousing,
fulfillment, and contract manufacturing facilities. That means we don’t just connect businesses to a supply
chain network—we control key parts of it, giving our clients unmatched flexibility, speed, and quality. From
raw materials to last-mile delivery, we provide end-to-end solutions through a single, scalable platform.
With many contracts spanning several decades, we value a long-term commitment and work hard to
provide a value to partners every day. If you are looking to grow your business, whether it is well established
or just starting out, Progress Industries should be your customized solution partner

The New York Farm Viability Institute is a nonprofit grantmaking organization. We run multiple competitive and non-competitive grant programs that seek to fund agricultural research and education projects for the purpose of creating and sharing knowledge to improve the economic viability of New York’s farmers. Our mission is to help New York farmers become more profitable and improve the long-term economic viability and sustainability of our state’s farms, the food system, and the communities which they serve. We strive to achieve our mission through a farmer-driven grant making process connecting farmer-identified needs to practical research and education solutions.

Schoharie Tripoint is a hard kombucha fermentory in Gilboa, NY. We use fresh, local ingredients—mountain spring water, organic teas, and seasonal fruits from nearby farms—to craft balanced, refreshing kombuchas. Every batch is brewed with care and attention to quality, delivering authentic flavors without additives or shortcuts. Bright, slightly wild, and original, our kombucha reflects the natural abundance of the Catskills and the community that inspires it.