Join farmer Jacey Meeks, session moderator, and panelists including Ever Williams from Georgia Organics' Farmer Champion Program, Andrew Williams of the Deep South Food Alliance, Emily Campbell from the Farm to Early Childhood Education (ECE) Coalition, and Justin Luangkhot from the Farm Food Collaborative about potentially untapped markets for your farm business.
What is CRAFT?
CRAFT stands for Collaborative Regional Alliance for Farmer Training and is a model for on-farm peer-to-peer training and network-building for farmers. The original CRAFT network formed in upstate New York and has been replicated many times since, adapted to meet the needs of each particular place.
Alabama CRAFT includes farm owners/operators as well as farm interns, apprentices, and employees, and aspiring farmers. It builds on past efforts to build community and share knowledge – including but not limited to the Regional Alabama Farmer Socials, and ASAN’s kindling workdays and crop mobs and Skillshare Trainings. The schedule can be found at asanonline.org/CRAFT
Alabama CRAFT is supported through the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Transition to Organic Partnership Program (TOPP). TOPP is a program of the USDA Organic Transition Initiative and is administered by the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) National Organic Program (NOP)