Extension
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| 1021 - Local Food Systems | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1021.2) | 18 |
Number of people who completed Extension Food safety (PBPT) |
| 1021.3) | 0 |
Number of producers who completed FSMA - Produce Safety Rule or Third-Party GAP Audit |
| 1021.5) | 0 |
Number of people who earned certification to sell or provide samples at farmers market |
| 1021.4) | 9 |
Number of producers who obtained value added processing certification (Home Based Microprocessing, Home Based Processing, Better Processing ,Control School, etc.) |
| 1021.6) | 3 |
Number of people who used Extension resources for marketing, pricing, and/or advertising local foods |
| 1021.7) | 9 |
Number of vendors approved to redeem alternate payments including WIC and/or Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program, Double Dollar programs, ect. |
| 1021.8) | 0 |
Number of producers/vendors who increased or maintained sales and/or reduced risk when selling food or food products |
| 1021.1) | 18 |
Number of people who attended training on food safety, food handling, food processing, liability, and/or marketing. This includes: PBPT, GAP certification, Farmers Market samples, ….) |
| 1021.11) | 6 |
Number of producers /vendors who increased or maintained access of locally produced foods based on sales and/or % of redemption of alternative payment programs |
Author: Deborah Stumbo
Major Program: Local Food Systems
Pikeville Farmers Market has been a great success. 2020 has been a struggle to keep up with and accommodate all the changes to the Farmers Market as asked for by health departments, city, county, University, State and local people. The main success of the market has been keeping everyone compliant, while providing services to the local buyers. Due to Covid our numbers have been down in 2020, but our clientele have presented many ideas to help deal with the restrictions and have
Author: Deborah Stumbo
Major Program: Local Food Systems
Pikeville Farmers Market completed a 4-year capacity building grant. Summaries were recently filed showing a huge success. In the last 4 years, the market has provided or taken our farmers to more than 60 trainings and workshops. A few of the trainings provided have been Produce Best Practices Training, Grant Writing, How to build Cool bots, Marketing online, Small Business trainings, High tunnels, using Facebook to sell, Small Farms Conference, Blueberry Production, Record Kee
