The Battenkill Kitchen, Inc. (BKI) is an educational kitchen facility located at the Historic Salem Courthouse in Salem, Washington County, New York.

Farmers, individuals, businesses, and community organizations are welcome to use the commercially equipped kitchen to do processing of products for individual use or retail sale, hold educational programs, meetings, and special events.

The kitchen provides a space for individual producers to create and process their food product. This New York State Department of Ag and Markets inspected kitchen is a perfect place to launch a small food business without a large capital investment.

For more specific details about the facility see the usage area of the website.

Our Mission
The Battenkill Kitchen, Inc. is a not-for-profit 501 (c) (3) organization and operates as an educational kitchen facility whose goals include:

• To provide educational seminars and instruction in the areas of food preparation to local farmers and food producers.
• To provide area residents information and educational assistance in the creation and packaging of food products.
• To use the kitchen as a teaching platform to educate local school children about food.
• To provide the community with a kitchen to be used for community events.

We encourage you to join the BKI and we look forward to working with you.

Board of Directors

Will Lennon, President
Paula Schafer, Vice President
Mary Ann Marschhauser, Secretary
Susan Quillio, Treasurer
Karen Hess
Bruce Ferguson
Dottie Schneider
Colleen Converse
Elizabeth Gambee Osborne

Website design by Colleen Converse