im Hollyer of the University of Hawai'i CTARH will provide GAP and food safety coaching designed to assist schools in serving garden produce in school lunch programs. This workshop will focus on food safety protocol - and ways to obtain GAP certification. LCPCS is currently working towards GAP certification as they incorporate school garden produce in the National School Lunch Program.
This workshop is open to everyone- and designed for school garden teachers and farmers.

Presented by educator and tea farmer Eva Lee, this program is for prospective tea farmers on Hawai‘i Island interested in growing the specialty crop camellia sinensis and producing white, green, oolong and black tea. Contact Julia Neal at 808-928-9811 or visitwww.teahawaii.com for more information.

Please join CTAHR and partners on Kaua‘i, O‘ahu, Maui and Hawai‘i Island if you are interested in learning how to increase your produce shelf-life and reduce potential pathogens in produce rinse water with sanitizers. This is an all-day event with our guest speaker, Dr. Trevor Suslow from UC-Davis, and representatives who will be showcasing their products for sanitizing produce rinse water for both organic and conventional fruits and vegetables. Seating is limited and you must sign up on our web site. Please send questions to Luisa F. Castro at luisac@hawaii.edu or 808-969-8261.

Preparing a successful business plan can pay off! this course includes business plan development training, site visits to working agriculture-related businesses, an introduction to resources, and speakers to inspire existing and aspiring farmers.

The two-day workshop will begin with the Prerequisites Programs for food safety. The Prerequisites Programs will discuss the environmental conditions and basic operations that support food safety, including agriculture-based production, foodservice and distribution. The second day will continue with the preliminary steps to HACCP. The seven HACCP principles necessary to develop a HACCP plan as applicable to any food will then follow, combining discussions, lectures, and exercises. The University of Hawai`i Manoa will award certificates with seals from the International HACCP Alliance to those who attend all sessions and satisfactorily complete all requirements.