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Calendar of Sustainable Agriculture Events

March 19, 2002 Bringing Your Product to Market - A day-long program featuring regional experts and celebrity food-entrepreneur success models: The seminar will be offered three consecutive days in two locations across Massachusetts, including a program in Spanish. Learn the fundamentals of food processing and new product development, packaging for today's market, food safety issues, shared use kitchens, preparing foods in your home kitchen, and business basics resources. Each program will feature real-life entrepreneur success stories and up-to date materials to develop your food business. There will be time for questions, discussion and networking.

March 19, 2002 - Bringing your product to Market - presented in Spanish, featuring Heidi Hartung, The Harbar Corporation, held at the Nuestra Culinary Ventures shared use kitchen in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.

March 20, 2002 - Bringing your product to Market - featuring Stacy Andrus, Stacy's Pita Chips and Paula White, 600 # Gorillas - presented at the Nuestra Culinary Ventures shared use kitchen in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.

March 21, 2002 - Bringing your product to Market - featuring Andrew Starkweather from Drew's All Natural - presented at the newly opened Western Massachusetts Food Processing Center in Greenfield, Massachusetts.

The registration fee of $20 includes all materials and a tasty lunch from a local specialty food caterer.

Who should attend: growers who want to add value to their products, specialty food entrepreneurs, start-up food businesses, policy makers, educators, and anyone interested in the food business.

Sponsors: The Franklin County Community Development Corporation, The Massachusetts Department of Food & Agriculture, the Massachusetts Specialty Foods Association, The Northeast Center for Food Entrepreneurship and Nuestra Comunidad.

-- Elizabeth (ekfla@aol.com), March 10, 2002

Answers

I wish I was able to attend. It sounds like it would be very interesting and informative.

-- Murray in ME (lkdmfarm@megalink.net), March 10, 2002.