The Rutgers Food Innovation Center has developed a Best Practices for Farmers and Vendors Course. 

For new vendors, this course provides practical guidance and tools to help farmers and other food purveyors transition to successful direct-to-consumer retailers. For established vendors, this course is designed to help expand and maximize the opportunities available at the markets at which they participate.

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CSREES has a secondary education challenge grant that might be of interest to groups working on connecting educational skill development and career center, post secondary programs or ag curriculum in schools without Ag Ed programs.  The grant application and details are located at http://www.csrees.usda.gov/fo/educationchallengesecondaryhep.cfm.   Food and agricultural sciences are part of the opportunity for educating youth and workforce development.