Presentations from "Starting a SUCCESSFUL Specialty Food Business" workshops offered by UC Cooperative Extension in 2015 workshop agenda To learn about any upcoming workshops relating to Specialty Food or Cottage Food businesses, please see the UC Small Farm Program list of upcoming events.
The "Cultivating Mushrooms on Small Family Farms" workshop was held Aug. 13, 2009 at the UC Kearney Research & Extension Center in Parlier. View the agenda. Below are PDF copies of PowerPoint presentations from the workshop. Cultivating Mushrooms on Small Family Farms (1.
January 1994 United States Department of Agriculture Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service Office for Small-Scale Agriculture More than 211,000 beekeepers maintain about 3.2 million honey bee colonies in the United States. Thousands of beekeepers are small-scale entrepreneurs.
June 1992 United States Department of Agriculture Cooperative State Research Service Office for Small-Scale Agriculture Five hundred years ago, Columbus was one of the first Europeans to set eyes on maize-foundation of most great Western Hemisphere civilizations, including those of the Incas, Mayans...
Small Farm News Spring 1998 includes articles and resources (publications/web sites): Marketing Organic Apples Successfully Organics on the Brink: Bonanza or Boondoggle Questions and Answers about the National Organic Program Proposed Rule Grower profile: Organic Landscape Plants for Sale Director's...
September/October 1990 Art Lange, Honey Crisp Farms, was a speaker at a recent Rare Fruit Symposium at UC Davis. Art discussed his experiences selling fruit at farmers' markets. Most of his l7 acre farm in Reedley, California is planted with peaches, plums, and nectarines.
November/December 1993 An annual "mushrooms" report from USDA's Agricultural Statistics Board on mushroom production shows that total production for 1992-93 was up four percent to 781 million pounds.
Commercial farming involves many risks - production risks and market risks - all of which put the operation itself at risk. There have been many episodes of farm failures in U.S.
