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Digital Marketing & CSA Customer Retention – Shared Legacy Farm shares their success!

Digital Marketing & CSA Customer Retention – Shared Legacy Farm shares their success!

Learn more about Shared Legacy Farm’s successful use of social media and email marketing to retain a large percentage of their CSA members, to the point of having a waitlist! […]

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Social Media Best Practices – 5 Marys Farm shares her success!

Social Media Best Practices – 5 Marys Farm shares her success!

Learn more about Five Marys Farm successful use of social media and how she sells 100% of their products to 30K customers using direct-to-consumer marketing strategies. Mary provides information on […]

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Value-Added Producer Grant Scholarship Program

Value-Added Producer Grant Scholarship Program

Photo by Zoe Schaeffer on Unsplash CAFF’s Value-Added Producer Grant (VAPG) Scholarship Program provides partial funding for farmers to work with Ellen Rawley Creative & Strategy, Inc. to write and […]

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Value-Added Product Webinar Series for Farmers

Value-Added Product Webinar Series for Farmers

Note: This webinar series has passed. Click here to watch the webinar series on CAFF’s YouTube Channel. Are you a farmer or rancher interested in producing or scaling a value-added […]

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CAFF VAPG Scholarship Opportunity

CAFF VAPG Scholarship Opportunity

Interested in applying for the USDA’s Value Added Producer Grant? Do you sell your produce as organic, local, free range, grass fed, etc. OR make a finished product from your […]

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Value-Added Products Regulatory Overview

Value-Added Products Regulatory Overview

Farms and food businesses processing foods into value-added products such as tomato sauce, salsa, and hot sauce need to be aware of the various state and federal food safety regulations […]

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Processed Food Registration Permit

Processed Food Registration Permit

Interested in preserving fresh farm crops into tomato sauce, pickles, and other canned products? In California you need to be aware of value-added product food safety regulations affiliated with these […]

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Cannery License Program

Cannery License Program

Farmers and food business makers processing raw agricultural products into shelf stable canned products may need to be in compliance with the California Cannery License Program. We have a pdf […]

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