Farmer Training Program Partners Sought
Farmer Training Program Partners Sought Across the Country – Farmer Training 2018
FamilyFarmed is seeking host partners across the country to join our grant application for funding of farmer training workshops (partner stipend available)!
FamilyFarmed is pleased to provide our Wholesale Success, Direct Market Success and On-Farm Food Safety training resources to farmers in your network!
These workshops are highly customizable to focus on your areas of need and can be scheduled for one to two days. Core topics for farmer training program partners 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
Farmer training program partners are being sought for programs that may include a farmer 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.
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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.
**inquiries after this date will be considered depending on our current partner status.
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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.
Learn more about beginning farmers training programs from beginningfarmers.org at https://www.beginningfarmers.org/beginning-farmer-training-programs/
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