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Community Seeds Incubator Kitchen And 'Sacred Grounds' Open For Business

Mary Cooper, "Sacred Grounds" coffee shop
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Mary Cooper, "Sacred Grounds" coffee shop

Bert Cooper, director of Community Seeds, a faith-based organization in Lone Oak dedicated to helping people get their lives back on track, has finally opened its U.S. Department of Agriculture-funded incubator kitchen, where entrepreneurial chefs may prepare food for commercial sale, and "Sacred Grounds," the coffee shop that will operate in the same space as the incubator kitchen.

John Mark Dempsey is the host of the public interest program The Blacklands Café from KETR News. Dempsey is also the play-by-play announcer for Commerce Tigers Football on 88.9 FM and on ketr.org.