Explore alternative enterprises by speaking with successful producers and university personnel who are already growing and researching specialty enterprises. Practical no-nonsense hands-on advice you'll need when considering crop & livestock production, market development, and other important business options. Resource notebook and four workshops to choose from including tomato production, disease and marketing, grants, social marketing, soil testing, grape production, using a fodder system to feed livestock, high tunnel greenhouses, poultry housing and forages for backyard poultry production, understanding organic certification and GAP, wholesale vegetable marketing (Retail Ready Program), brambles and blueberry production. Lunch topic: Trends in Local Healthy Food Financing.

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