Fresh Produce Cold Chain Management for your Farm
Join us in El Paso County for a workshop that will cover the importance of managing the temperature of your harvest for both quality and safety!
Program topics include:
- Understanding produce physiology and how precooling systems lead to improved produce quality & maintaining the cold chain
- Cold chain and post-harvest best practices
- Hands-on activities (monitoring temps. and cleaning and sanitizing)
- Mitigating risks with the system you use, from icing to hydro-cooling to different models of coolers
- Importance of keeping it clean! Food contact surface sanitation and your cold chain practices
- We will have a modified trailer on site with Cool-Bot technology for an “On-site Field trip”
Featured Speakers:
- Chris Callahan University of Vermont Extension. Associate Professor, Agricultural Engineering
- Eduardo Gutierrez-Rodriguez, Colorado State University. Assistant Professor, Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
Class Fee: $30 plus Eventbrite fees*
- Lunch will be provided
- Registration deadline is 4:00 pm Thursday December 1, 2022
- When registering select the in-person ticket or the ONLINE ticket
- Workshop location: Colorado Springs and online
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/farm-cold-chain-management-workshop-tickets-443674180417