Small Growers with and Emphasis on Organic/Sustainable ......Small Growers with and Emphasis on...
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Small Growers with and Emphasis on Organic/Sustainable Growers
North Carolina Fresh Produce Safety Task Force Outreach
Chris GunterVegetable Production Specialist
Horticultural ScienceNorth Carolina State University
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Diverse Production
52,400 Farms8.6 M AcresAverage Size = 164 Acres
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NC Fresh Produce Safety Task Force
Diane DucharmeThursday 9:30 am
CommodityGroups
Regulatory
IndustrySupport
UniversityResearch
and Extension
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Emphasis on Small Farms Organic Production
CEFS is dedicated to sustainable agriculture research, extension and education
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High Crop Diversity
Diverse Production
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Mock Audits for Small Farms
56% Likely toDevelop Food Safety Plan
Most Liked:Open DiscussionFarm Walk with Real Auditor (Premier and Davis Fresh)
Wanted: Whole Farm or Systems Approach (More on this Later)
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Food Safety Plan
Developed with Small Farm Focus Group
Editable and Adaptable
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Most Food Safety Discussion or Recommendations Directed at this Scale of Grower
Limited Application for Small Scale Growers
Creates BarriersReal or Imagined
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Resistance to Food SafetyFear:Distrust of governmentDistrust of “Big Agriculture”CostLoss of marketBeing Implicated in outbreak
Distrust audit process
Terminology that does not apply to them
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Outbreak TrainingAwareness TrainingTargeting Growers
Ben ChapmanThursday 8:15 am
“Before attending this training,I didn’t think GAP applied to me”
-John Volmer, Strawberry Farmer
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Crisis ManagementSweet Potato Growers Identified a Need!
Prepare Grower Leadership
USDA: SCRI Sweet Potato Project “Participatory Modeling and Decision Support for Improving
Sweet Potato Production Efficiency, Quality and Food Safety.”
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On-Camera TrainingClassroom Instruction: Face to Face and
Webinar
InteractiveQuestioning!
Crisis PlanDevelopment
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NC Sustainable Local Foods Advisory Council
Goal: More local food into the food supply
Identified Food Safetyand GAPs Certification as
Primary Barriers to Local FoodFor Example – Farm to School Program
Whole Farm or Systems Approach to Certification – Looking at this Now
Roland McReynolds and Debbie RoosCo-Chairs our Small
Farms Working Group
NCDA Specialty Crop Block Grant
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Food Safety for Direct Marketers
Secret Shopping&
Direct Observationof Practices
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Farmers Market Curriculum Being Developed
Piloted food safety curriculum with market managers
Science-basedReceive useful feedbackDevelop relationships with new markets
Revised curriculum based on feedbackIncreased supportFarmers market advisory groupManagers and vendors