(Cazenovia, NY – May 2013) Critz Farms will host the 8th and final workshop on Marketing NY Farm Products to Bed & Breakfast Innkeepers. It will be held on Tuesday, May 14 beginning at 1:30 p.m. at Critz Farms, Route 13 South, approximately 4.5 miles south of the Village of Cazenovia.
This Central New York workshop is designed to bring B&B innkeepers together with farmers with products for sale. The project’s goal is to give innkeepers and farmers a chance to meet, get acquainted, encourage transactions, and, finally, to promote these exchanges in the future in a systematic way.
Each Bed & Breakfast owner will receive a gift basket that could include jams and jellies, processed meat and grain products, flowers and produce in-season, or any kind of product or information on agritourism or services from New York farms. As part of the basket assembly, farmers and small scale food processors “wholesale” or “gift” products to be included in each market basket.
Project collaborators include the Empire State Bed & Breakfast Association, the NYS Small Scale Food Processors, and NY-NOFA. After the Cazenovia workshop, collaborators and key participants will gather online to develop the next phase in building this marketing outlet.
To register on-line, go to: https://reg.cce.cornell.edu/https://reg.cce.cornell.edu/_225
or contact Cornell Cooperative Extension of Madison County by calling (315) 684-3001.
This project, which is administered by Cornell Cooperative Extension of Madison County, is made possible through New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets and the Federal State Marketing Improvement Program at USDA.