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SUMMARY:Hatch Your Farm + Food Business
DESCRIPTION:Hatch Your Farm + Food Business is a six-part workshop designed and delivered by food industry experts Good to Grow\, in collaboration with BC Association of Farmers’ Markets\, with support from Vancity. \nDate of Workshop: Tuesday January 17\, 2023 \nTime: 9am to 5pm \nLocation: Hastings Room at the PNE Grounds – 2901 E Hastings St\, Vancouver\, BC V5K 5J1 \nCost: $60 \nFull details: https://bcfarmersmarket.org/events/hatch-farm-food-business/ \nRegistration: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/hatch-your-farm-food-business-tickets-481816826097 \n  \nThis one-day workshop is designed for: \n\nthose that have an idea for a farm or food business and want to learn what it takes to start;\nthose that have a new business and product and want to start selling at farmers’ markets;\nor existing farmers’ market vendors looking to validate a new product.\n\nYou will learn how to build a strong foundation and successfully establishing your product at the farmers market by covering the following topics: \nPart 1: Roadmapping Your Business\nPart 2: Research Your Customer\nPart 3: Recipe Development – Scaling & Costing\nPart 4: Branding and Labeling your Package\nPart 5: Pricing\, Margins and Building in Future Distribution\nPart 6: Building a Successful Farmer’s Market Experience \nRefreshments of coffee and snacks will be provided. Also included is a delicious lunch! \n  \nGood to Grow Bio\nGood to Grow is a team of food industry experts and business educators who create success for B.C. food and beverage brands. They provide one-on-one coaching\, workshops\, learning cohorts\, and signature events From The Ground Up Conference and Trade Show and Pitch & Plate. Andrea and team believe a food-secure\, sustainable future for B.C. starts with local first. \n  \nInstructor Bio\nAndrea Gray-Grant is the CEO and founder of Good to Grow. She is a leading food business educator\, coach and advocate with over 25 years of sales and marketing experience in the natural food industry. Andrea has first hand experience in launching a food business and the hard earned lessons that come with it. She has supported more than 1\,000 B.C. food and beverage brands to success.
URL:https://organicbc.org/event/hatch-your-farm-food-business/
LOCATION:Hastings Room at the PNE Grounds\, 2901 E Hastings St\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V5K 5J1\, Canada
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SUMMARY:How to Access Farmland Using Cooperative Models
DESCRIPTION:This webinar panel digs into how co-operatives in British Columbia are making farmland accessible for sustainable farming. Panelists will discuss why they formed a co-op\, what it is all about\, what the key challenges are\, and how their co-ops are addressing these. \nLearn more and register at: nfu.ca/event/how-to-access-farmland-using-cooperative-models \n  \nWebinar Chair\nAntonio Gomes runs Cavaleiro Farm in Schomberg\, ON The farm produces veggies\, fruits\, sheep and farmers. Farmers operate their local food businesses using ecological and cooperative principles. He also runs an accelerator program for farmland owners building community farms and resilience. \n  \nPanel moderator\nHeather Hallgrimson\, is Director of Entrepreneurship with Co-operatives First and in this role\, she supports groups starting co-operatives. She studied Linguistics and Policy and grew up all over rural Saskatchewan\, and now resides in Saskatoon. \n  \nPanelists\nHeather Pritchard co-founded an agricultural business (back in 1985) on Fraser Common Farm and is recognized as creating the first commercially grown mixed green salad in Canada. In 2006 the company became a co-op\, Glorious Organics. As a founding member of FarmFolk CityFolk\, she coordinated the BC region of the Bauta Family Initiative on Canadian Seed Security\, partnered with Young Agrarians\, and supported the development of Community Farm Cooperatives. She is also a founding member of Vancouver Food Policy Council and the BC Food Systems Network\, and is the current Chair of Slow Food in Canada. In 2015\, Heather was given the Brad Reid Memorial Award for her outstanding contribution to the organic sector in British Columbia. On January 1\, 2018\, Heather left FarmFolk CityFolk to work full time for the Foodlands Cooperative of British Columbia. \nChris Bodnar is a farmer in Abbotsford\, with his wife Paige\, at Glen Valley Organic Farm Co-op. They have grown organic vegetables at the farm since 2007\, selling at farmers markets\, wholesale markets and operating a 480-member Community Supported Agriculture program. In the off season\, Chris also does farm business consulting and developed and taught the Business of Agriculture course at Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s Sustainable Agriculture program from 2015 to 2021.
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SUMMARY:2023 Pacific Agricultural Show
DESCRIPTION:The Pacific Agriculture Show will showcase the latest and most innovative equipment and technology for the agriculture industry. Join thousands of farmers and agri-food producers in comparing and investigating what over 300 exhibitors have to make your operation more efficient. \nBC’s agriculture industry is unique in its diversity and the Show attracts an attendance from all the livestock and horticulture sectors including: dairy\, cattle\, poultry\, equine\, hogs\, llamas\, alpacas\, to vegetable\, berry\, grape\, bulb\, ornamentals\, hothouse\, flower and shrub growing and more. \nLearn more at: agricultureshow.net
URL:https://organicbc.org/event/2023-pacific-agricultural-show/
LOCATION:Tradex Exhibition Centre
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