Produce Safety Spring Training: Engaging Beginning Farmers With Timely and Practical Guidance to Build a Community of Food Safety Practitioners

The goal of this project is tosupport beginning farmers in successfully building and scaling their farm operations by providing them with the practical trainings and resources they need to effectively, efficiently, and confidently invest in the processes and infrastructure that will enable them to reduce food safety risks.Objective 1: Conduct 12 regional food safety tours that reach a variety of farmers via a multipronged approach of full day PSA trainings, shorter deeper dive trainings, group farm food safety walkthroughs, and one-on-one on-farm consulting sessions to support farmers to prepare confidently for the upcoming growing season and their management plans.Objective 2: Provide an online, interactive, farmer-to-farmer course that conclude with tangible results - namely, farm food safety plans reviewed and vetted by experts.Objective 3: Collect or create anecdotes, images and video, FAQs, and other farmer-focused content to support a database of best practices, tipsheets, and brief guides to give farmers across the country more practical resources to implement produce safety practices on their farm.