EXT XFS.0028 - Vegetable production intensive skills workshop: improving your production for efficiency and market access
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Join University of Minnesota Extension educators for a newly developed two-day, hands-on workshop for fruit and vegetable producers this winter. This training will include information and tools to help improve your farming skills to grow and sell more high-quality vegetables for wholesale, farm to school, and cooperative markets. If you are looking to improve your farm's operations, find new markets, improve efficiency and profits and meet new farmer colleagues, this training is for you.
Audience: Farmers with 2-5 years of experience looking to scale up or sell to wholesale markets. Note that the materials are not intended for a home gardener audience.
Topics include: Selecting the right markets for your crops, crop planning, variety selection, efficient weeding tools, scouting for pest and disease problems, postharvest handling and packshed design, sorting and grading produce for wholesale markets, low-cost DIY cooler design, food safety and season extension. The workshop will be almost entirely hands-on. All participants will leave with printed and digital resources and a small kit of supplies.
Select from three locations and dates for the training that works best for you.
Event contact
Natalie Hoidal, hoida016@umn.edu
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