Source: NC FOOD INNOVATION LAB, 10/21/19


Celeste Brogdon grew up working in her family’s large vegetable garden. Every summer she helped her mother “put up” green beans, tomatoes, apple sauce and spaghetti sauce at the Glade Hill Community Cannery in Franklin County, Virginia. Since it opened in 1941, Celeste’s family has canned thousands of jars of vegetables and sauce, a job made easier because of the cannery.

Working with the NC Food Innovation Lab (NCFIL) reminds Celeste of those family cannery visits, so she feels at home in her role as Director of Development for the facility. Celeste is in charge of securing support for NCFIL as it is the cornerstone of NC State’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ Food Processing and Manufacturing Initiative. And she’s been engaged with NCFIL since the beginning. 

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