Farm Cold Chain Management Workshop

Fresh Produce Cold Chain Management Workshop

This class is offered with both in-person and online options.

Please note that the best experience will be in-person. Online participants will not be able to take part in the hands-on activities or the on-site field trip.

This workshop will cover the importance of managing the temperature of your harvest for both quality and safety.

Program topics include:

• Understanding produce physiology and how precooling systems lead to improved produce quality & maintaining the cold chain
• Cold chain and post-harvest best practices
• Hands-on activities (monitoring temps. and cleaning and sanitizing)
• Mitigating risks with the system you use, from icing to hydro-cooling to different models of coolers
• Importance of keeping it clean! Food contact surface sanitation and your cold chain practices
• We will have a modified trailer on site with Cool-Bot technology for an "On-site Fieldtrip"

 Featured Speakers: 

• Chris Callahan University of Vermont Extension. Associate Professor, Agricultural Engineering (speaking via Zoom)

• Eduardo Gutierrez-Rodriguez, Colorado State University. Assistant Professor, Horticulture and Landscape Architecture (in-person)

Class Fee: $30 plus Eventbrite fees*

• Lunch will be provided
• Registration deadline is 4:00 pm Thursday December 1, 2022
• When registering select the in-person ticket or the ONLINE ticket
• Workshop location: Colorado Springs and online

*Early Bird Special! If you register before November 8, 2022 at Noon, I will pay your Eventbrite fees!

If you have any questions, contact Michele.Ritchie@colostate.edu

No refunds. 

Thank you to Friends of Extension, and the Colorado Produce Safety Collaborative for their kind support for this workshop, allowing us to off-set some of the cost for the workshop.