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Produce Safety

This curriculum is an overview of produce safety on the farm. Participants will explore the farm through the lens of food safety and learn how to assess and mitigate risks to ensure safe fruits and vegetables.

Curriculum

Produce Safety Modules

What are the Produce Safety Risks on the Farm?

Participants will explore the farm through the lens of food safety and discover how various farm activities can pose a risk to fresh produce.

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What Am I Going To Do About Produce Safety?

Learners will explore the farm through the lens of food safety and discover how various farm activities can pose a risk to fresh produce.

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What Makes Food Unsafe?

Participants will explore the farm through the lens of food safety and discover how various farm activities can pose a risk to fresh produce.

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Beginning Farmers Curricula  © 2025 by Michigan Beginner Farmer Curriculum Team is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

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This work is supported by the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program grant no. 2021-70033-35833 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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​Beginning Farmers Curricula © 2025 by Michigan Beginner Farmer Curriculum Team is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

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