Producer School Food Buyer Networking
This session is for producers that want to get started with the important work of establishing relationships with school food buyers. Even if you are just curious about selling to schools, this session will provide an opportunity for you to practice your sales and values pitch to school buyers. This is also for producers that are serious about selling to schools and school food distributors. Note that the working session “How to Tell Your Story to Create a Thriving Business” closely aligns with this networking session. During this facilitated session, you will have one-on-one conversations with school food buyers. Come prepared with your business card, sales and values pitch, and a wholesale price list of your products.
About the Speaker
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Tammy Howard
NCATTammy is a native Coloradoan who came to the National Center for Appropriate Technology via a long stint of farming and sustainable agriculture work in New York State and Arizona. At NCAT, Tammy works as an Agriculture Specialist with an emphasis on farm business planning, market gardening, and other horticultural topics. She manages Bringing the Farm to School which aims to build producer’s capacity to sell to schools through a cooperative agreement with the USDA Food and Nutrition Service. She lives in Belgrade, Montana and enjoys hiking and spending time managing her flower farm and homestead, Nana Louie Farm, in her spare time.