Rooting DC 2020 Resources

We, Mandela and I, were honored to facilitate a workshop at Rooting DC 2020. Our workshop was titled Urban Agribusiness: Growing Money on Trees.

• Workshop Talk (follow along to the slides below!)

• Workshop Slides (with notes of almost everything we said)
  
• Articles
  • USDA Definition of Value-Added Products
    • Value Added Producer Grant
    • Where Do American’s Food Dollars Go?
    • USDA’s Food Dollar Series
    • National Agricultural Library page on Value-Added Marketing
  • ATTRA’s Collection of information on Value-Added Products
    • Beyond Fresh: A Food Processing Guide for Texas Farmers
    • Celebrating Farmer’s Markets
    • Keys to Success in Value-Added Agriculture (PDF Link)
  • UMD’s Collection of information on Value-Added Products
  • PSU: What is Value-Added Agriculture?
  • University of Nebraska-Lincoln Page on Value-Added Agriculture
  • Colorado Farm to Market: Value Added Products
  • Small Family Farms Aren’t the Answer
  • Why No One Buys What You Think You Sell
  • Wave Interference
    

• State Guidelines
  • DC Cottage Food Guidelines
  • Maryland Cottage Food Guidelines
  • Virginia Cottage Food Guidelines
  • Dreaming Out Loud’s DREAM 2020 Foodpreneurship Business Development Program Application
  • UDC’s Certified Professional Food Manager Course (Certification has reciprocity in other states!)
    
• Podcasts
  • Encouraging Achievement on the Farm with Vernon Peterson
  • The Value of Nutrient Density with Matt Kleinhenz
  • Soilful X Horace Pippin – Edible Activist Podcast
  • Resources – JP002
  • Agribusiness: Growing Money On Trees II – JP009
    
• Books
  • Beyond Fresh: A Value-Added Guide for Texas Farmers
  • How To Make $100,000 on 25 Acres
  • Backyard Market Gardening
  • George Washington Carver’s entire body of work
  • The Mom Test
  • Future Fertility: Transforming Human Waste into Human Wealth
    
• Value Added Producers Mentioned
  • Eternile
  • Microbes by Marco
  • Relish Market
  • Soilful’s Pippin Sauce you can buy the Pippin Sauce in person @ Relish Market, Glen’s Garden Market, Good Food Market
    
• Videos
  • Anatomy of a Failed Co-Op: Lessons from Greensboro’s Renaissance Community Cooperative
  • How to Build a Freeze Dryer
  • HARVESTRIGHT FREEZE DRYER–1 YEAR REVIEW
    • Commercially-available home freeze dryer Harvest Right ($$$$)
  • Milling your own Flour
    • NutriMill Harvest Grain Mill