and On-Farm Food Safety Workshop
Risk Management is
Good Business:
Best Practices for
Specialty Crop Farmers
These workshops are for farmers and
ranchers interested in selling their products to wholesale markets such as
restaurants, grocery stores, food service and schools.
Space is limited - REGISTER
TODAY!
Locations
& Dates (lunch is included!)
Shoshone,
1-day workshop, $25
February 22, 2016 ~
8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Idaho
Falls, 1-day workshop, $25
February 24, 2016 ~
8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Ø Post-Harvest
Handling
Ø Maintaining the
Cold Chain
Ø Cleaning and Drying
Ø Packing and Grading
Ø Food Safety Best
Practices
Ø
Participating
farmers will receive a free copy of the Wholesale Success manual.
Normally a $70 value, this 316 page manual is newly updated and in its
fourth printing. Wholesale Success covers up-to-date best
practices information on food safety, postharvest handling, packing, business
management, marketing, and crop-specific profiles for over 100 crops.
Our
trainer, Atina Diffley, is an organic farmer and author of the 2012 award
winning memoir, Turn Here Sweetcorn, Organic Farming Works. Atina draws
on her decades of experience in vegetable production and marketing to provide
operators of produce farms of any size with useful, practical, profit-making
guidance on how to achieve the highest quality produce for sale!
Brought to
you by:
University
of Idaho Extension, FamilyFarmed.org and USDA Risk Management Agency
To enrich education through diversity the University of Idaho is
an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and educational institution.
In compliance with the American Disabilities Act of 1990, people needing
accommodations need to contact Colette two weeks prior to the workshop cdephelps@uidaho.edu.
University of Idaho Extension & FamilyFarmed.org
Colette DePhelps
Associate in Community Food Systems & Small
Farms
University of Idaho Extension, Moscow, ID
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