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
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