Josephine County Farm Collective

Josephine County Farm Collective improves community health by providing skill building educational programs designed to change dietary habits. We provide education to consumers and producers as follows:Consumer education includes the following: Cooking From the Garden programs which focus on nutritional benefits preparing, preserving and eating fresh, whole foods with simple steps, inexpensive techniques and easy recipies Grow Your Own programs provide basic home gardening skills for all living situations so participants can save money and eat better by growing their own whole foods. Lunch n Learn programs are abridged videos of the above programs available online to increase accessability to educational content. Producers, to provide technical assistance with: Risk management Improve business management Production skill building Marketing development

Commercial Food Processing Kitchen:This is an Oregon Department of Agriculture licensed food processing kitchen which will be available for public rental. This program is in progress and phase 1 was completed by the end of 2024. By then end of 2025 we expect to have 3 food business tenants.

Try It Before You Buy It Equipment Lending Library. Josephine County Farm Collective has acquired an initial inventory of assets for food processing and are expecting to launch our lending library of small farm equipment by the end of June 2025. We will complete a small farm equipment needs assessment by the end of 2025 and will begin acquisition of small farm equipment by June 30, 2027.