Food Business Workshop: May 29, 2013
This free one day workshop is for those who want to start and/or successfully operate a food business in West Virginia. You’ll learn everything including product and process approval, needed certificates, inspections of food businesses, labeling requirements, responding to emergencies, and marketing.
Fruit Drying Workshop: May 30, 2013
This free workshop is for those who want to produce and/or train how to produce dried fruit products. The class will include product and process development, ingredients, product safety, and storage and handling.
Contact Judy Matlick at 304-728-7413 or Judy.Matlick@mail.wvu.edu to register or for more information about either workshop.
State Fair Tagging 2013
Test Your Soil
Use this form to submit a sample for testing at the WVU Soil Testing Lab in Morgantown. This form requires Adobe Acrobat Reader a free computer program, to be printed.The analysis for pH, phosphorous, potassium, calcium, and magnesium is free. The only cost is postage to mail the sample. A recommendation for lime, nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium is provided. Results will be returned to you in two to three weeks.
To create a representative sample of the area of interest, take 10 to 20 individual samples, combine them in one container, mix them and let the soil dry. Then pull a subsample from the soil collected and fill a sandwich bag. Mail the sandwich bag and the completed form to the address on the form.
