Increasingly, buyers are expecting their suppliers to have a documented food safety program on their farms. Shermain Hardesty, UC Small Farm Program Director and Paul Vossen, Farm Advisor for Sonoma & Marin Counties, UC Cooperative Extension present this workshop for farmers who are selling or want to sell produce to a wholesale market, restaurant, school, or grocery store.
Date: Monday June 11, 2012
Time: 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Registration and beverages at 1:30
Place: Norton Hall, UCCE Yolo County
70 Cottonwood Street,
Woodland, CA
Workshop Topics:
- Various organisms and their potential for on-farm produce contamination
- Legal requirements for assuring food safety on the farm
- Procedures for developing a "Self Certification" document
- What it will take to pass a USDA Good Agricultural Practices audit
Please register here
(There is no registration fee)
For more information: Contact Shermain Hardesty, 530-752-0467
Presented by the University of California Small Farm Program and University of California Cooperative Extension