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Scaling Up Workshops: How to grow more, sell more and make more
Post Date: October 21, 2009
Consumer demand for local foods is growing and Farm to Table, NMDA, and NMSU and University of Arizona Coop Extension are teaming up to offer a series of two workshops that will help farmers and ranchers in the Middle Rio Grande Valley and the Four Corners area to expand their businesses and meet this demand. The theme of the workshops is “Scaling Up: How to grow more, sell more and make more.”
In the first workshops, successful farmers from the area and beyond will present on their experience with:
- Community Supported Agriculture programs (CSAs),
- Selling to restaurants and institutions,
- Season extension for year round production and sales,
- Livestock marketing, and
- Diversifying product mix.
The workshops will also provide farmers and ranchers with the opportunity to meet in small groups with these farmers to think about which production and marketing improvements will work best for their own farms or ranches.
Workshop participants will be eligible to receive free, one-on-one consulting about their farm and ranch business.
The workshops will be held in the following three locations:
FARMINGTON
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
3pm to 8pm
First Presbyterian Church
865 North Dustin Avenue
SHIPROCK
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Shiprock Chapter House
US 64
10 am to 3 pm
BELEN
Saturday, November 14
Belen Public Library
333 Becker Ave
10am to 3pm
A $5 registration fee covers lunch or dinner and refreshments. To eat, YOU MUST RSVP one week before the workshop. For more information or to RSVP, contact Ilana Blankman at (505) 473-1004 x 12 or ilana.blankman@gmail.com.
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