Still beginning farmers after 4 years, Cindy and Mike offer custom butchered beef, pork, chicken, turkey, along with other items such as maple syrup, honey, and soap on-line as well as at their on-farm store.
In the morning, tour their grass based livestock production and learn how all their enterprises including their bees integrate to comprise their whole farm. In the afternoon, learn from their success through diversity and product packaging. Read more »
You have an greater opportunity to make more profit when direct marketing your products, but, it is like adding another enterprise. Learn about some of the options, from on-farm markets to CSA’s, farmer’s markets and marketing to restaurants.
Understand the importance of maintaining quality through storage, transport, handling and display, in addition to pricing, promotion, record keeping and considerations for particular enterprises. Read more »
The New Farm Tour & Post Harvest HandlingBrent and Gillian offer over a 150 varieties of premium quality seasonal vegetables from their 100 acre farm, which they call “handmade” as everything is grown the good old fashioned way, with hand tools.
In the afternoon, participants will see how the high level of quality is maintained through their harvesting/processing/packing procedures. Read more »
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