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During Retail Farm Market Peer Exchange: Plum Creek Farm Market and Creamery, we will tour Plum Creek Farm’s retail market and creamery and chat with owners and staff about the market’s evolution from a roadside wagon to a newly-constructed market, creamery, and eatery. Attendees are encouraged to ask questions of Plum Creek Farm staff and each other in an exchange of knowledge and experiences. About Plum Creek Farm Market and Creamery Plum Creek Farm is a small family-owned business located…
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Social media is essential for any small business in order to engage customers and drive sales. This highly-mobile form of communication is even more important for food trucks – businesses that are one place today and a completely new location tomorrow. Being able to quickly build a following, luring customers across town or around the block, requires effective use of platforms and strategies that highlight the culinary adventures in store. But just how is social media able to capture food…
To gain knowledge of the materials and processes used to make cultured dairy products. This 3-day course begins with an overview of cultured product processing, dairy ingredients, and starter cultures. These principles are applied in lectures on the manufacture of cream cheese, buttermilk, cottage cheese, sour cream, yogurt, Greek-style yogurt, cultured milk drinks, and novel products. This course emphasizes interactive learning through the integration of classroom discussions, demonstrations, and hands-on laboratories. Breaks, lunches, and a reception encourage further networking discussions…
Participants in this three-day course will gain knowledge on the operational and regulatory procedures used for pasteurization, with an emphasis on milk. The course begins with a focus on the composition and microbiology of milk to set the stage for the conditions needed for pasteurization and cleaning. The course focuses on the components of the HTST pasteurization system, including instrument control systems, auxiliary equipment such as homogenizers and separators, and flow control technologies. Operation of the system is addressed from…
Plum Creek Creamery and Farm Market