Progress 09/01/18 to 08/31/20

Outputs
Target Audience:CAFF has been invited by stores, food hubs, packing houses, and distributors to work with small farmers that they purchase from or would like to purchase from. This is a good way to engage farmers in food safety, since their ability to sell to these buyers is directly related to being in compliance with FSMA and adopting GAPs. This has been and will continue to be particularly effective with Latino and Hmong growers, many of whom sell to identified packing houses. Additionally, there is a growing need for CAFF's Food Safety program's technical assistance with growers that sell to food hubs in California. Many of these growers are relatively new farmers and almost all have no food safety plan, or program in place at their farm when we first start to work with them. Additionally, we worked with small-scale farmers and historically underserved farmers. Changes/Problems: Nothing Reported What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?This project has provided extensive opportunities for farmers to receive food safety training. As mentioned earlier, we provided food safety training to 640 farmers through our in-person trainings, webinars, and one-on-one support. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?We have been an active participant in the Western Regional Center's monthly calls and have sent them various reporting documents throughout the project. We have also attended all Western Regional Center annual meetings and provided report outs on our project progress as requested by them. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? Nothing Reported

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? Overall this was a very sucessful project. We built upon CAFF's already existing food safety program and reached hundreds more farmers. A more detailed explanation of our accomplishments for each objective is below. 1) educate small, under-served farmers in California about the new FSMA information and rules -We completed 14 in-person FSMAtraininngs to 279 farmers during which we answered 127 food safety questions. We also helped 117 farmers one-on-one during which we answered 297 food safety questions. We also provided four webinars for growers on food safety topics (FSMA, COVID-19). We had a total of 244 farmers on those webinars and we answered 68 food safety questions. Here are some of the written responses we received on workshop evaluations: -"this was a good class + full of a lot of information" -"it is a good training that every farmer needs to undergo" -"I literally am coming out feeling confident in knowing my next steps and contact for any help!" -"very glad to have attended this very well prepared and delivered workshop" -"Thank you! Great to have the copy of the slideshow and all the resources."? 2) develop and disseminate multilingual educational materials about FSMA, GAPs, and food safety -We partnered with the University of Vermont Extension to translate three factsheets they have that are targeted towards small-scale farmers and how to improve their food safety practices during postharvest handling. You can find all three of the Spanish resources on this webpage:https://www.caff.org/recursos-agricolas-en-espanol/ 3) partner with farmer incubator organizations throughout the state and conferences that small farmers attend to provide in-person food safety trainings -We worked with five different farmer incubator organizations throughout the state to provide them and their farmers with food safety technical assistance and training. The five organizations were: the Center for Land Based Learning, First Generation Farmers, Sierra Harvest, University of California Santa Cruz Apprenticeship Program, and the Mendo/Lake Food Hub. 4) develop a model farm program in different parts of the state that creates local examples where growers can go learn from a fellow farmer about how they integrated GAPs into their farming practices and brought their farm into FSMA compliance. -We developed a Model Farm Program, that we ended up calling the Partner Farm Program. We had our first cohort of four farmers participate in the program in 2019-20. Each farm improved their food safety practices and reduced their food safety risks. You can learn more about the first cohort of farmers in the report here:https://www.caff.org/partner-farm-program/

Publications

• Type: Other Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Farm Cooler Checklist Spanish Resource. Chris Callahan. https://www.caff.org/farm-cooler-checklist/
• Type: Other Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Smooth and Cleanable Surfaces Spanish Factsheet. Chris Callahan and Andy Chamberlin.https://www.caff.org/smooth-and-cleanable-surfaces/
• Type: Other Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Best Design for Cooler Floors Spanish Resource. Chris Callahan and Andy Chamberlin. https://www.caff.org/best-design-for-food-safety-floors/
• Type: Other Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: CAFF Partner Farm 2019-20 Program. Kali Feiereisel. https://www.caff.org/partner-farm-program/

Progress 09/01/18 to 07/01/20

Outputs
Target Audience:CAFF has been invited by stores, food hubs, packing houses, and distributors to work with small farmers that they purchase from or would like to purchase from. This is a good way to engage farmers in food safety, since their ability to sell to these buyers is directly related to being in compliance with FSMA and adopting GAPs. This has been and will continue to be particularly effective with Latino and Hmong growers, many of whom sell to identified packing houses. Additionally, there is a growing need for CAFF's Food Safety program's technical assistance with growers that sell to food hubs in California. Many of these growers are relatively new farmers and almost all have no food safety plan, or program in place at their farm when we first start to work with them. Additionally, we worked with small-scale farmers and historically underserved farmers. Changes/Problems: Nothing Reported What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?This project has provided extensive opportunities for farmers to receive food safety training. As mentioned earlier, we provided food safety training to 640 farmers through our in-person trainings, webinars, and one-on-one support. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?We have been an active participant in the Western Regional Center's monthly calls and have sent them various reporting documents throughout the project. We have also attended all Western Regional Center annual meetings and provided report outs on our project progress as requested by them. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? Nothing Reported

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? Overall this was a very sucessful project. We built upon CAFF's already existing food safety program and reached hundreds more farmers. A more detailed explanation of our accomplishments for each objective is below. 1) educate small, under-served farmers in California about the new FSMA information and rules -We completed 14 in-person FSMAtraininngs to 279 farmers during which we answered 127 food safety questions. We also helped 117 farmers one-on-one during which we answered 297 food safety questions. We also provided four webinars for growers on food safety topics (FSMA, COVID-19). We had a total of 244 farmers on those webinars and we answered 68 food safety questions. Here are some of the written responses we received on workshop evaluations: -"this was a good class + full of a lot of information" -"it is a good training that every farmer needs to undergo" -"I literally am coming out feeling confident in knowing my next steps and contact for any help!" -"very glad to have attended this very well prepared and delivered workshop" -"Thank you! Great to have the copy of the slideshow and all the resources."? 2) develop and disseminate multilingual educational materials about FSMA, GAPs, and food safety -We partnered with the University of Vermont Extension to translate three factsheets they have that are targeted towards small-scale farmers and how to improve their food safety practices during postharvest handling. You can find all three of the Spanish resources on this webpage:https://www.caff.org/recursos-agricolas-en-espanol/ 3) partner with farmer incubator organizations throughout the state and conferences that small farmers attend to provide in-person food safety trainings -We worked with five different farmer incubator organizations throughout the state to provide them and their farmers with food safety technical assistance and training. The five organizations were: the Center for Land Based Learning, First Generation Farmers, Sierra Harvest, University of California Santa Cruz Apprenticeship Program, and the Mendo/Lake Food Hub. 4) develop a model farm program in different parts of the state that creates local examples where growers can go learn from a fellow farmer about how they integrated GAPs into their farming practices and brought their farm into FSMA compliance. -We developed a Model Farm Program, that we ended up calling the Partner Farm Program. We had our first cohort of four farmers participate in the program in 2019-20. Each farm improved their food safety practices and reduced their food safety risks. You can learn more about the first cohort of farmers in the report here:https://www.caff.org/partner-farm-program/

Publications

• Type: Other Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Farm Cooler Checklist Spanish Resource. Chris Callahan. https://www.caff.org/farm-cooler-checklist/
• Type: Other Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Smooth and Cleanable Surfaces Spanish Factsheet. Chris Callahan and Andy Chamberlin.https://www.caff.org/smooth-and-cleanable-surfaces/
• Type: Other Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Best Design for Cooler Floors Spanish Resource. Chris Callahan and Andy Chamberlin. https://www.caff.org/best-design-for-food-safety-floors/
• Type: Other Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: CAFF Partner Farm 2019-20 Program. Kali Feiereisel. https://www.caff.org/partner-farm-program/

Progress 09/01/18 to 08/31/19

Outputs
Target Audience:We provided technical assistance and outreach to beginning farmers, organic farmers, minority farmers, veteran farmers, and women farmers throughout the last year. Many of those farmers grow a variety of crops on smaller acreage. They grow all types of vegetables, tree nuts, tree fruit, and berries. Changes/Problems:We have not had any major changes or problems in approach. We have been dilligent about planning and collaborating with partner organizations to get trainings with farmers planned and provided. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?We have provided a number of opportunities for farmers to obtain training and professional development to learn more about FSMA and get their farm into compliance. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?We have not completed the project yet, so we do not have results to share yet. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?We plan to provide 10 more food safety trainings to farmers enrolled in farmer incubator organization classes as well as at conferences. Additionally, we will release the resources translated into Spanish. Finally, we will host five field days, one at each of the five model farm farms. At each of those field days the host farmer will talk about their experience going to through the model farm program and share what they did to improve their food safety practices on their farm and get into compliance.

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? During the first year of the project we provided 10 workshops to 143 people. We answered 92 food safety questions at those trainings. We gave two trainings at small farm conferences: CA Small Farm Conference and the Sierra Harvest Food and Farm Conference. We provided eight trainings to farm incubator organizations and their students across the state. These organizations include: San Diego Small Business Development Center, First Generation Farmers, Sierra Harvest, UC Santa Cruz Apprenticeship Program, and the Center for Land Based Learning. We also helped 86 people 1-on-1 during that time in a more extensive way. We answered over 200 questions while helping those 86 farmers. We have collaborated with the University of Vermont Extension to get three of their excellent small farm postharvest resources translated into Spanish. Those translated resources will be complete in a month. We have continued to update our CAFF website to include a large amount of Spanish resources. We developed the model farm program, promoted it, had farms apply to be in it, vetted them, and have been working with five farms over the last six months. All farms were at different food safety "starting points" and we have created farm specific action plans for each farm to help guide them through making small food safety changes to get into compliance with FSMA.

Publications