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Scaling Up: Smart Growth for Local Foods

11/17/2014

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Title
Values and Scale in Local Foods Marketplace

Overview
Balancing the reasons we choose to farm with the economic realities of the modern food system can challenge even the most-experienced grower, and while beginning growers wash up on the rocks of scaling-up, questions about size and values creates conflict within the local foods movement. Chris Blanchard will discuss how we can root our growth in good business, while not losing sight of the fertile values in which that growth occurs.

Outline
1. Defining Goals for a Local Food System
2. A Feel for the Land
3. Thinking (about getting) Big
4. Local Food Lies
5. Food is Worth More than the Sum of its Parts

Series
In The Market

Topics
Business, Scaling Up

Audience
All Farmers, Local Foods Advocates

Length
45 - 90 minutes

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    Workshop Topics:
    Business
    Finances
    Food Safety
    Irrigation
    Labor
    Management
    Marketing
    Post Harvest Handling
    Pricing
    Production
    Records Management
    Risk Management
    Scaling Up
    Season Extension
    Systems
    Transplants
    Value Added

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