Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

permaculture - [permaculture] GAP rears its ugly head again! A heads up for food producers!! Fwd: [SANET-MG] seeking farmers to pilot short survey on food safety certification

permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: permaculture

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>, Market Farming <marketfarming@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] GAP rears its ugly head again! A heads up for food producers!! Fwd: [SANET-MG] seeking farmers to pilot short survey on food safety certification
  • Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:04:54 -0500


GAP rears its ugly head again! A heads up for independent market farmers and food producers!!
Fwd: [SANET-MG] seeking farmers to pilot short survey on food safety certification
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [SANET-MG] seeking farmers to pilot short survey on food safety certification
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:13:48 -0500
From: David S. Conner <97dconne@UVM.EDU>
Reply-To: Sustainable Agriculture Network Discussion Group <SANET-MG@LISTS.IFAS.UFL.EDU>, "David S. Conner" <97dconne@UVM.EDU>
To: SANET-MG@LISTS.IFAS.UFL.EDU

Hello SANET colleagues

I am working with other UVM colleagues to develop a survey of farmers
to determine their needs, interests and constraints around GAP food
safety certification*. Our goal is to use the info to design Extension
programming and possibly justify cost sharing for small farms.

I am hoping some SANET folks, especially farmers, would be willing to
look at and pilot our survey, (always a good idea for surveys), to
give us feedback and suggest improvements in wording, etc. We think
there will be three surveys, one for (i) those who completed GAP,as
well as (ii) veggie farmers and (iii) apple farmers who have not.

It is a short survey, should not take much time...

We will not use your responses as data, just as feedback to improve
the instrument. Let us know which of the three surveys best fits you.


*I know GAP is very controversial and unpopular with many, and I have
mixed feelings myself, so I hope no one flames me for bringing it up...

Please let me know (off-list is fine) if you are interested or with
any questions

Thanks for your time and consideration
David
--
David S. Conner
Assistant Professor
Department of Community Development and Applied Economics
205H Morrill Hall
University of Vermont

Voice: 802-656-1965




  • [permaculture] GAP rears its ugly head again! A heads up for food producers!! Fwd: [SANET-MG] seeking farmers to pilot short survey on food safety certification, Lawrence F. London, Jr., 01/28/2011

Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page