Wholesale Success Workshop

April 7, 2016

Philippi, WV 

Nationally-renowned trainer, farmer, and author Atina Diffley draws on her decades of experience in vegetable production and wholesale 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!

Learn about:

 Post-harvest handling, Maintaining the cold chain, Cleaning and Drying, Packing and Grading, Packing Shed Design, Food Safety Best Practices

 Each farm or family attending will receive one copy of the Wholesale Success Manual. Normally a $70 value, this 300+ page manual is newly updated, revised, and in its fourth printing. Wholesale Success covers up-to-date best practices information on food safety, postharvest handling, packing, business management, marketing, and crop-specific profiles for over 100 crops.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

There is a registration fee of $25 for the first registrant, and $15 for each subsequent farm or family member. Lunch will be provided.

A limited number of space is available for this workshop.

This event is being organized by Heart and Hand Inc with funding from a Rural Community Development Initiative (RCDI) Grant from the USDA, with organizing support from the Value Chain Cluster Initiative (VC2) & Natural Capital Investment Fund (NCIF).