REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS TODAY ...
MONDAY, Jan 14, 2013
Wholesale Success:
A Farmer's Guide to Selling, Post-harvest Handling and Packing Produce Workshop ($15)* in Kansas City
Learn from a successful produce farmer with over 30 years of experience about:
* Post harvest handling
* Food safety needs of wholesale buyers
* Packing and grading
* Maintaining the cold chain
Participating producers will receive a free copy of www.FamilyFarmed.org's Wholesale Success Manual. Normally a $55 value, this 250+ page manual is newly updated, revised, and in its third printing. The manual includes more than 100 crop profiles with crop-specific information on harvesting, cooling, storing, and packing according to industry standards.
January 17th
Agenda:
1:30 - 3:30 Postharvest Handling and Food Safety
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 6:00 Successful Marketing and Food Safety
6:00 - 6:30 Dinner
6:30 - 8:00 Farmer and Buyer Panel:
Farmers: Brett Fahrmeier of Fahrmeier Farms, John Goode of Goode Acers, Lonnie Hail of Bear Creek Farm, and Alicia Ellingsworth of Cultivate KC
Buyers: Delbert Housworth of Balls Foods, Coleen Johnston of Raymore-Peculiar School District, Shane Hanson of Door-to-Door Organics, Goode Acers, and a representative of Hyvee (tentative)
Where:
University of Missouri Platte County Extension Office
11724 NW Plaza Circle, Suite 300
Kansas City, MO
816-270-2141
Cost: $15 which includes all materials and dinner.
Email nixonk@lincolnu.edu or call 816-809-5074 ASAP.
Presented by: Growing Growers of Kansas City
http://www.
and
www.FamilyFarmed.org
You must pre-register. Space is limited
* REGISTRATION DEADLINE is JANUARY 14th 2013
Katie Nixon
Small Farm Specialist
Innovative Small Farmers Outreach Program
Lincoln University Cooperative Extension
Kansas City, Missouri
816-809-5074
