Jan 19th - Wholesale Success: A Farmer’s Guide to Selling, Postharvest Handling and Packing Produce

This is the second of the workshops on Wholesale Success:  A Farmer's Guide to Postharvest Handling and Packing Produce where producers will learn about what it takes to sell to wholesalers of all shapes and sizes.  A wholesale panel is included for you to make contacts and begin to develop marketing relationships.

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.

· Maintaining the cold chain

· Packing and grading

· Food safety needs of wholesale buyers

· Postharvest handling

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-Success  Please RSVP to Rachel Levi or call (314) 521-1006