Feb 17, 2012Ohio Farm to School offers free online presentation for producers
Selling to schools is a great opportunity for producers to grow their scale, offering many benefits including:
- Committed market with constant, steady demand
- Reliable prices
- Increased community awareness and support
- Market diversity
- Promotion of child nutrition
Learn more about how to work with school systems at Ohio Farm to School’s free online presentation, "Selling Local Food to Schools." The presentation includes information about marketing and distributing to schools, school food pricing strategies, planning classroom visits and farm field trips, addressing seasonality, the school food bid process, and more.
To attend the one-hour presentation live, go to the OPGMA website on March 1, at 12 p.m. A recording of the presentation will be available afterward here. For more information, contact Mary Griffith at (614) 292.0618.
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