This report describes and analyses a number of factors that are important for small-scale entrepreneurs in the food sector. The aim is to identify what small business owners perceive, as structural conditions seem prohibitive for their business development. The study is based on a survey of support structures and two in-depth interviews with entrepreneurs. It turns out that women’s entrepreneurship is rhetorically on the agenda, but in terms of gender equality and grassroots organizations such as Resource Centres’ for women are not perceived as important interlocutor for regional growth and development. For the entrepreneurs, they develop their businesses through their own network’s, with persistence and belief and creativity to combine new concepts. The enhancement the support structures might offer, the interviewed entrepreneurs finds administratively burdensome and based on short-term schedule. Regional growth and development programs focusing entrepreneurship and businesses needs to be organized by initiated people who are aware of the conditions to run businesses and have experiences of their own.