Produce Farmers Are Food Handlers! Let’s do it safely and cost-effectively.

A practical, systems-based training, designed by farmers for farmers, to develop and implement scale-appropriate food safety plans. In this six week online class, farmers are guided through the process of performing food safety risk assessments of their farm operations. They identify changes they wish to make, and utilizing free online templates, write a food safety plan to address them. The plans include farm maps and assessments, food safety practices and standard operating policies, and logs and record keeping systems. Training integrates co-management of the farm’s natural resources into the design of the food safety system. Practical discussion of scale-appropriate strategies for cost-effective implementation of food safety goals are part of each topic area. Following each session, participants work on writing that portion of their food safety plan.