Are high gas and food prices getting you down?  Ever thought about supplementing your income with those berries in your backyard or with fruit from New Mexico trees?  With the long growing season in New Mexico, the access to fresh ingredients and the large numbers of agricultural producers and marketing outlets, New Mexico is the perfect place to grow a food-based business. 

If you've been sitting on that family recipe for pumkin pine-nut cookies, have room in your yard for a micro-intensive garden, or simply want to sell (free?) some of the zucchinis you over-planted, the next Agribusiness Collaborative meeting is for you.

Here are the details:

Selling and Marketing Your Own Local Food

1. Eric Garretson, Manager of the Downtown Growers’ Market and

Michael Reed, President, New Mexico Farmers’ Marketing Association

Ever think about selling your own local produce? Here’s what to consider

2. Tim Nisly, Programs Manager , South Valley Economic Development Center

Further expanding your market potential with value-added production—success stories from the commercial kitchen

3. KT LaBadie, MRCOG, Introducing the new local food map! Are you on it? Would you like to be? Give us feedback

Wednesday July 9, 2008

9:00 - 10:30 a.m.

Mid-Region Council of Governments  

809 Copper Avenue, NW

Albuquerque, NM 87102

Please call Ann Simon at 724-3617 with any questions.