Nevada agriculture department seeks ‘Farm2Food Accelerator’ participants; program connects women farmers and entrepreneurs

The Nevada Division of Agriculture, alongside the Nationwide Affiliation of State Departments of Agriculture Basis, is looking for members for the Ladies’s Farm2Food Accelerator program, beginning in November of this yr.

An data session can be held nearly prematurely of this system on Sept. 20, 2022, from midday to 1 p.m.

That is the second yr this workforce improvement program is being supplied to Nevadans, following the profitable completion of the pilot program earlier this yr and optimistic suggestions from the 9 preliminary members.

This system is designed to assist Nevada ladies farmers and entrepreneurs with value-added meals or beverage merchandise, or product concepts, develop their enterprise and increase into new markets.

A price-added product is a product that has modified in its bodily state or kind, resembling milling wheat for flour or making strawberries into jam. Ladies who develop specialty crops, together with fruits, greens, honey, tree nuts, dried fruits, culinary herbs and spices, or supply specialty crop elements within the merchandise they make are inspired to use.

“This can be a nice alternative for Nevada’s ladies farmers to obtain entrepreneurship coaching and instruments,” stated NDA Director Jennifer Ott. “This program helps ladies owned, small-scale companies in rising their operations and growing their market success.”

Chosen members will take part in a 15-week on-line program and two in-person occasions for free of charge due to funds made out there via the Nevada Specialty Crop Block Grant program. This system will present ladies with the chance to:

— Achieve data and instruments associated to meals security, product improvement, advertising and different trade assets

— Join with a group of ladies farmers, meals entrepreneurs and meals consultants

— Launch a brand new meals or beverage product or improve an current product for market

Who’s eligible for the Nevada 2022-2023 program?
For those who reply “that’s me!” to both of the next, we encourage you to use! Are you a farmer with a price added meals or beverage product or product concept? Are you a meals or beverage entrepreneur whose processed product or product concept consists of elements sourced in Nevada?

Chosen ladies will be a part of the course at no-cost to the participant due to federal funds to assist assist Nevada’s agriculture and broader group. In return, members agree to supply suggestions to the NDA on this system.

people can register for the knowledge session and apply for this system at f2faccelerator.org/nv-program.

The deadline to use for this system is Oct. 7, 2022.