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Dr. Morrine Omolo is a Food Safety Extension Specialist in the Department of Food Science and Nutrition at the University of Minnesota. She obtained her Ph.D. in Food Science from the same department in 2020. Dr. Omolo’s doctoral research focused on characterizing small scale food producers in Minnesota, to better understand the private and public value of Extension food safety education. She...

In this episode of the Farm Walks Podcast, we have the opportunity to talk with Bil Thorn of Sky Island Farm in Humptulips, WA about low-risk marketing outlets and food safety best practices for direct-to-consumer marketing and wholesale outlets. Bil also addresses innovative ways to find farmland and his approach to scaling up their business by expanding their market reach. To close out this...

Dr. Juliana Ruzante is an expert in food safety and public health. She manages and provides technical advice to several projects in food safety and antimicrobial resistance. She works closely with the U.S. federal government and others to support the development of evidence-based policies and practices to prevent foodborne illness from farm to fork. Dr. Ruzante has served on multiple advisory...

Sean Fogarty is a Research Specialist at the Northeast Center to Advance Food Safety (NECAFS), which is one of four USDA funded regional centers in the United States, based at University of Vermont Extension. Before joining NECAFS, he earned a B.S. in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) as a non-traditional student while also holding several research...