Produce Best Practices Training educates producers about FSMA requirements and the latest on produce safety and is a basic training requirement for All Samples certificate from KDA. So, if Farmer's Market Vendors want to offer their customers samples this is a training they must complete. Vendors expressed interest in expanding their products and offering samples to help promote sales of their products, so we offered several PBPT workshops at the Magoffin County Extension Office. 

This training also educates vendors on harvesting produce safely to help prevent food borne illnesses by practicing cleaning/ sanitizing and harvest techniques from start to finish.  

Farmers Market vendors, other producers who wish to sell their produce. We had 18 participants, 8 female. This training can help set the seller apart from other roadside sellers or vendors and will be a requirement for those who wish to sell at the Magoffin County Farmers Market in 2025. 

Participants received their PBPT certificates and will continue to keep them in good standing as long as they sell at the Magoffin County Farmers Market. This education helps them to continue to provide safe, fresh produce to their customers as well as allow them to expand their businesses by offering samples if they take the next step to receive their all samples certificate.