Wholesale Success: A Farmer’s Guide to Postharvest Handling and Packing Produce
Date: Saturday, January 19th, 2013
Time: 1-5pm, Meet The Buyer Reception 5-6pm
Location: Saint Stephens Church, 33 N. Clay Ave, Ferguson MO, 63135
Cost: $10.00 ($1 credit card processing fee online)
Farmer and workshop leader Atina Diffley, author of the memoir, Turn Here Sweet Corn, 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. Workshop attendees will receive a free copy of FamilyFarmed.org’s Wholesale Success Manual, a $55 value.
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The workshop will be followed by a reception, refreshments provided by Fresh Gatherings Café. Farmers will have the opportunity to meet wholesale purchasers from such institutions as the Ferguson-Florissant School District, Washington University’s Bon Appetit Dining, and Andy Ayers, produce distributer of Eat Here STL.
You may register and pay for the workshop at:
http://tinyurl.com/Wholesale-
Please RSVP to Rachel Levi (rachel@earthdancefarms.org) or call (314) 521-1006