Carolyn Smith - Private Business

C&T Smith, LP is a family-owned business focused on supporting urban and rural agricultural concerns through education, assessment, implementation, and monitoring of good agricultural, food safety, and sanitation practices. The principal clients are urban farms, small rural farms and local restaurants in a fifty-mile radius of Chicago, Illinois.  Preparing contracts and financial instruments.  The hiring of company subcontractors.  ServSafe Food Protection Manager/Instructor/Proctor  Produce Safety Alliance Trainer (Food Safety Modernization Act/Good Agricultural Practices) International certification  Urban and rural agriculture production design.  Perform onsite water/soil testing, interpretation of results and recovery through scientific practices.  Education and program development/delivery regarding Good Agricultural Practices, Food Safety/Sanitation and Organic Pest Management  Development/delivery of courses concerning food preservation (flash freeze, canning, and dehydration).  Tool-based data development and implementation concerning total quality management in production, recording keeping, and effective vendor/customer management.  Environmental remediation of food production habitats.