According to the National Sustainable Agriculture coalition, small-scale entrepreneurship creating and marketing value-added products has the potential to enhance economic development in communities. However, for small- scale entrepreneurship to work, it takes being open to new learning opportunities.  A vendor in the Scott Co. Farmers market had a business selling wooden cased ink pens he made himself and his wife knitted and crocheted items to sell as well.  Their business was modestly successful, however, after taking classes on gardening and canning at the Scott Co. Cooperative extension office, along with a Home Based Micro processing program that offered there, he began selling jams and jellies he made from excess produce from his garden in 2017.  In 2019 face to face interview, he said he could not keep his jams and jellies stocked.  He mentioned that his success was borne from classes he took at the extension office.   The volume of jam and jellies his sales has skyrocketed.