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FamilyFarmed Seeks USDA-Funded Farmer Training Partners
Minnesota Ag Connection - 06/19/2018

FamilyFarmed is seeking host partners across the country to join its grant application for funding of farmer training workshops. These workshops are highly customizable to focus on your areas of need and can be scheduled for one to two days. Core topics could include:

- FSMA/on-farm food safety plans & risk management best practices

- Wholesale marketing and operations

- Direct marketing operations

- Pre-harvest and post-harvest handling best practices

- Maintaining the cold chain, cleaning and drying, packing and grading

- Packing shed and farm site map design

- Developing relationships with buyers

- Worker health and hygiene, record keeping, traceability

- Contracts and wholesale sales agreements

Workshop activities may include: presentation, farmer and/or buyer panel, activities and small-group work, group assessments and discussion, beginning food safety plans, making farm site maps, facility tours and site visits, reception/Meet the Buyers networking event.

To bring farmer training to your farmer network or for more information about our workshops, including financing/grant options to cover all associated costs, please contact Jay McGhee (Jay@FamilyFarmed.org) and Chelsea Callahan (Chelsea@FamilyFarmed.org), or call 312-874-7360 no later than June 22.

Since the launch of Wholesale Success: A Farmer's Guide to Food Safety, Selling, Postharvest Handling, and Packing Produce - now in its 5th edition -, FamilyFarmed has worked with partners to train more than 14,500 farmers across the U.S. on how to better meet buyers' expectations for food safety, product consistency and product quality. In the past two years we've added Direct Market Success for new and beginning farmers and a full food safety curriculum to make sense of new federal regulations, including those under the Food Safety Modernization Act.

The trainings are led by Atina Diffley, Steve Warshawer and Pam Benike. Atina is a pioneer in the organic farming community and author of the 2012 award-winning memoir, Turn Here Sweet Corn: Organic Farming Works. Pam is a lifelong farmer who is passionate about placing wholesome, locally grown food directly into the hands of the folks who will eat it. Her farm, Prairie Hollow, is located in southeastern Minnesota. Steve has worked in local and regional food system development for the past 40 years and operates Mesa Top Farm, a small farm/ranch in Santa Fe County and is the Food Safety coordinator for the National Good Food Network. Atina, Steve and Pam will offer first-hand expertise, practical/scale-appropriate systems, step-by-step recommendations, group dialog and food safety plan assistance.


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