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High Tunnel Produce Marketing Tips & Best On-Farm Food Safety Practices Workshop Series, Part 1 TCCC Center for Applied Technology 2415 Airport Road Marble, NC 28905 This is no cost workshop & lunch is included. Seating is limited. Please RSVP to Christina Newhouse at 8283612266 or email: [email protected] Tuesday, July 12, 2016 9 AM - 4:30 PM Please come and join us for a day of learning on how to improve your farm business. This workshop will cover two vital pieces of a successful farm business, Marketing and OnFarm Best Food Safety Practices. The morning session will focus on the marketing of your high tunnel produce and farm products by giving you marketing tips, resources, and inform you about costshares available to aide in your marketing efforts. The afternoon session will focus on Fresh Produce Food Safety by conducting a handson field trip to the Cherokee Co. CoOp Ext. High Tunnel Site. Class Instructors Diane Ducharme NCSU Ext. Associate in Horticulture & Food Safety GAPs Program Coordinator Christina Newhouse Smoky Mtn. High Tunnel Initiative, Small Farm Specialist Molly Nicholie Program Director, ASAP Local Food Campaign Kathryn Jenkins TCCC Small Business Center Director Keith Wood Cherokee Co. Extension Agent, Agriculture Sponsored By: Partners: take water samples from 3 different water sources for quantitative Generic E. coli determine water testing results & what they mean chlorinate water for remeditation & as a santizer determine water pH & contact time take soil samples identify onfarm food safety hazards clean harvest equipment and much more............... This workshop is the 1st in a series of 3 workshops addressing the topics of marketing, multi season crop production, financial planning, and practical applications for fresh produce safety. The workshop dates are July 12, Aug. 23, and Dec. 6. The December workshop will close the series with a 3 county farm services and local resources Expo. All of these skills are needed to grow and harvest safe produce to deliver to your consumer. We want to help you succeed in being the best producer as possible and be profitable at the same time! The class will learn how to properly do the following on-farm practices:

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High Tunnel Produce Marketing Tips & Best On-Farm Food Safety Practices Workshop Series, Part 1

TCCC Center for Applied Technology2415 Airport RoadMarble, NC 28905

This is no cost workshop & lunch is included.Seating is limited.  Please RSVP to Christina Newhouse at 828­361­2266 or email:

[email protected]

Tuesday, July 12, 20169 AM - 4:30 PM

Please come and join us for a day of learning on how to improve your farm business. This workshop

will cover two vital pieces of a successful farm business, Marketing and On­Farm Best Food Safety

Practices. The morning session will focus on the marketing of your high tunnel produce and farm

products by giving you marketing tips, resources, and inform you about cost­shares available to

aide in your marketing efforts.  The afternoon session will focus on Fresh Produce Food Safety by

conducting a hands­on field trip to the Cherokee Co. Co­Op Ext. High Tunnel Site.

Class Instructors

Diane Ducharme ­ NCSU Ext. Associate in Horticulture & Food Safety GAPs Program Coordinator

Christina Newhouse ­ Smoky Mtn. High Tunnel Initiative, Small Farm SpecialistMolly Nicholie ­ Program Director, ASAP Local Food Campaign

Kathryn Jenkins ­ TCCC Small Business Center DirectorKeith Wood ­ Cherokee Co. Extension Agent, Agriculture

Sponsored By:Partners:

take water samples from 3 different water sources for quantitative Generic E. coli

determine water testing results & what they mean

chlorinate water for remeditation & as a santizer

determine water pH & contact time

take soil samples

identify on­farm food safety hazards 

clean harvest equipment and much more...............

This workshop is the 1st in a series of 3 workshops addressing the topics of marketing, multi season crop production,

financial planning, and practical applications for fresh produce safety.  The workshop dates are July 12, Aug. 23, and

Dec. 6.  The December workshop will close the series with a 3 county farm services and local resources Expo.

All of these skills are needed to grow and harvest safe produce to deliver to your consumer. We

want to help you succeed in being the best producer as possible and be profitable at the same time!

The class will learn how to properly do the following on-farm practices: