Small Farmer’s Guide to Food Safety

Posted on February 22, 2020 by Taylor in Farming Practices, Farming Resources, Food Safety, Law, Management, Publications, Young Farmers // 0 Comments

NYFC and LFSC Introduce Small Farmer’s Guide to Food Safety – A Free Resource

The National Young Farmers Coalition, in partnership with the Local Food Safety Collaborative and with funding from the FDA, introduces a brand new produce safety resource, “A Small Farmer’s Practical Guide to Food Safety.”

This 137-page guidebook aims to help small and beginning growers understand the Food Safety Modernization Act’s Produce Safety Rule, and to generally make the food they offer to their communities safer.

This guidebook and the accompanying online resource library are not exhaustive instructions on how to legally comply with the Produce Safety Rule, but are meant to equip growers with the basics to improve food safety on their farm: training agendas, template standard operating procedures (SOPs), specific options for wildlife management, suggestions for how to set up a washing station, and much more.

Business Services Director, Cara Fraver, says, “For years, we’ve tried to find specific, implementable examples of how young farmers can reduce risk and improve their practices. This guidebook and its online resource library strive to provide some tangible answers to how to improve food safety on a small farm.”

The online resource library and PDF version of the Small Farmer’s Guide to Food Safety guidebook are free and available on our website, www.youngfarmers.org. For printed copies, please visit our online shop.

Read the Guidebook!

The National Young Farmers Coalition represents, mobilizes, and engages young farmers to ensure their success. NYFC envisions a country where young people who are willing to work, get trained, and take a little risk can support themselves and their families in farming and supports practices and policies that will sustain young, independent and prosperous farmers now and in the future. Visit The National Young Farmers Coalition on the web at www.youngfarmers.org, and on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram.