By KELLY L. HECKAMAN
Extension Educator, Purdue Extension Kosciusko County

Purdue Extension is sponsoring five workshops throughout the state today through Wednesday, April 8, for fruit and vegetable producers to learn how to reduce the risk of contamination by foodborne pathogens in produce.

All of the “Good Agricultural Practices A to Z” programs are free to attend.

A workshop in Elkhart County will cover cantaloupe, specifically, while the others will cover food safety in general as it relates to fruit and vegetable production.

Producers growing fruits and vegetables of any variety should find the workshop useful.

The Elkhart County workshop will be from 12:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday, March 24, in Ag Hall at the Elkhart County Fairgrounds, 17746 CR 34, Goshen. Contact: (574) 533-0554, ext. 106 or [email protected].

Registration for the workshops can be found at https://tinyurl.com/RegisterGAPsAtoZ.

The program is funded by the Indiana State Department of Agriculture through a U.S Department of Agriculture Specialty Crops Block Grant.