Our upcoming FREE workshop,
Market Ready, will discuss some of the best practices involved in marketing and
selling your home-grown products locally. It's perfect for small-acreage
producers, but even backyard growers who want to explore selling produce,
herbs, eggs, honey, etc. locally, will benefit. Please join us! Press release
below.
The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service in Travis County will
present a marketing workshop to help small-scale agricultural producers sell their produce to area restaurants and grocery
stores.
The free workshop, “Market Ready Training: Selling to
Restaurants for Local Growers,” will be held from 9 a.m.-noon
Sept. 26 at the AgriLife Extension office, 1600-B Smith Road in Austin.
“The program is designed for local farmers and small-acreage
growers, as well as potential buyers,” explained Dr. Daniel Chavez, AgriLife
Extension economist, College Station
Chavez, who will present the program the workshop, said topics
will include restaurant sales, product marketing, the Young Farmer Grant Program
and the Texas Department of Agriculture’s GO TEXAN program.
“The Market Ready program is value-added, best practices course
that covers the nuts and bolts of making your product market ready for sale to
local restaurants, smaller grocery stores, small grocery chains and others,” he
said.
Chavez said workshop specifics would include relationship
building, product packaging, labeling and pricing, delivery and storage, along
with invoicing, quality assurance and insurance requirements. There also will
be information on the financial assistance programs available to small-scale
producers.
“At this workshop, attendees will get to know what the potential
buyers want and how to effectively market their produce,” he said.
For more information, contact Chavez at 979-587-4492
To RSVP, contact Daphne Richards at drichards@ag.tamu.edu
Visit the Central Texas Horticulture website: http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/travis/index.html