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SUMMARY:What It’s Worth: Pricing Produce for Profits
DESCRIPTION:What It’s Worth: Pricing Produce for Profits\nBeing a su
 stainable farmer is more than the farming methods you use, it also mea
 ns ensuring you can stay in business regardless of your marketing outl
 et. Chris Blanchard of Rock Spring Farm and Flying Rutabaga Works will
  help you navigate pricing strategies to meet your customer needs and 
 your farm's bottom line. This workshop will include methods for determ
 ining production costs and pricing across variation in your farm syste
 m including the differences between field production and season extens
 ion.\nTopics covered include:\nPricing Rules of Thumb Margins in Diffe
 rent Markets\nEstablishing Costs of Production\nProduction Expenses \n
 Marketing Expenses\nSeason Extension Expenses and Pricing\nOwnership C
 osts\nValuing Labor\nQuickbooks Classes\nDate: Thursday January 23rd, 
 5:30-7\nLocation: UBC Farm Centre\n3461 Ross Drive\nVancouver BC\nMap:
  http://goo.gl/maps/MMO1\nChris' workshops about farm business concept
 s, food safety, organic vegetable production, and scaling up to farmer
 s throughout the country have gained a reputation for fresh approaches
 , down-to-earth information, and honesty.\nChris Blanchard Bio\nChris 
 Blanchard provides consulting and education for farming, food, and bus
 iness through Flying Rutabaga Works. As the owner and operator of Rock
  Spring Farm since 1999, Chris raised twenty acres of vegetables, herb
 s, and greenhouse crops, marketed through a 200-member year-round CSA,
  food stores, and farmers markets. Prior to 1999, Chris managed studen
 t farms, worked as an intern, packing house manager, plant breeding as
 sistant, and farm manager, and provided consulting for a major organic
  processor, in California, Wisconsin, Maine, and Washington state.\nTh
 is workshop is a part of the \"Building Resiliency\" series within the
  UBC Farm's workshops. It is sponsored by the Vancouver Foundation in 
 support of the UBC Farm's \"Building Resiliency: Growing Food and Farm
 ers\" project. A goal of this project is to improve local food system 
 resilience by providing hands-on training and workshops to increase th
 e amount of food produced and consumed locally year-round.\nVancouver 
 Foundation helps build more vibrant and resilient communities in BC. W
 e do this by harnessing the gifts of energy, ideas, time, and money fr
 om caring citizens to make meaningful and lasting impacts. We are Cana
 da’s largest community foundation and we’ve been investing in comm
 unities since 1943. To find out more visit: www.vancouverfoundation.ca
 \n\nFor more information visit http://villagevancouver.org/events/what
 -it-s-worth-pricing-produce-for-profits
DTSTART:20140124T013000Z
DTEND:20140124T030000Z
CATEGORIES:workshop, farming, business
LOCATION:UBC Farm Kitchen
WEBSITE:https://chrisblanchard-ubcworkshop.eventbrite.ca
URL:https://chrisblanchard-ubcworkshop.eventbrite.ca
CONTACT:604.822.5092
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