There is a lot to learn to successfully grow a financially viable food business. It can be confusing to know where to start.
Our live immersion and on-demand deep-dive trainings provide the essential knowledge and individual business-level feedback you need to successfully grow your business and raise capital.
Attendees of our Immersion Trainings get exclusive access to everything in Edible-Alpha® Learning Center’s extensive resource library for one year through our Unlimited Learner Pass. Scholarship funds are available, learn more here.
Value-Added Producer Grant (VAPG) Grant Writer Consultant Training
Writing a Value-Added Producer Grant (VAPG) takes substantial time, strategy, organization, and mobilization. This training equips consultants to write high quality VAPG grant applications for their clients, increasing the likelihood that they will get funded.
MVP Series Workshop: eCommerce Management
This workshop will help you develop your eCommerce strategy and learn how Amazon (and/or other strategic partner sites) can maximize your business potential. Learn how to leverage best practices on Amazon to build your eCommerce business strategy.
2023 Tribal Producer VAPG Boot Camp
This Boot Camp will help you as a tribal producer write a successful VAPG proposal right now and learn how to VAPG into your overall business model.
2023 Producer VAPG Boot Camp
USDA Value-Added Producer grants present a great opportunity to access federal money to grow your farm business. At this Boot Camp, renowned VAPG writer and consultant Jim Gage of JDG Consulting will walk you through the VAPG application, translate the RFA language into actionable insights you can understand, help you successfully outline your ideas and provide examples and options so you can write a successful proposal right now.
MVP Series Workshop: Sales Forecasting, Trade Promotions & Execution
This workshop helps you develop your sales forecast / go to market costs / trade promotions plans and key execution and management tools to maximize customer profitability and relationship.
Farm Financial Management Boot Camp (Feb/March 2023)
Modeled off of FFI's successful Food Business Financial Management Boot Camp, Farm Boot Camp will address situations and scenarios unique to diversified farm businesses. Boot Camps are multi-day events limited to ten businesses or less that combine networking, learning, focused work time, individual consulting, and business pitches.
MVP Series Workshop: Brand & Marketing Management
This workshop helps you to define - align - activate your brand to stand out in the marketplace and maximize your business product line and net margin.
MVP Series Workshop: Marketing Execution Management
This workshop helps you develop your marketing strategies and tactics that align and deliver against your business growth and net margin objectives.
MVP Series Workshop: Operations Process & Supply Chain Optimization
This workshop will help you optimize your operations / production processes and supply chain to produce the lowest cost possible, with the best quality, within food safety guidelines.
FFI MVP Series Workshop: Dedicated Facility vs. Co-Packer
In this workshop, you will learn how to develop your own dedicated production facility and/or work with a co-packer to produce the lowest cost possible, with the best quality, within food safety guidelines.
Deep Dive Training
Deep Dive: Co-Packing: Mindset, Decisions, & Pitfalls
39 minutes of Paid course content by Edible-Alpha®
On-Demand Course about Operations for businesses that are Growing and Scaling
Deep Dive: Accounting & Finance 101
1 hour 12 minutes of Paid course content by Edible-Alpha®
On-Demand Course about Financial Management for businesses that are Growing and Scaling | Startups | Pre-Venture
Deep Dive: How and When to Use Debt to Finance a Farm Business
1 hour 20 minutes of Paid course content by Edible-Alpha®
Food Finance Institute Farm Outreach Specialist, Andy Larson walks you through how debt, when utilized properly, can be a fundamental tool to benefit your farm business.
Unlimited Learner Pass holders or purchasers of the course – navigate to the course here
On-Demand Course about Financial Management for businesses that are Startups | Growing and Scaling
Deep Dive: Walk Through of Farm Financial Statements – Balance Sheet
54 minutes of Paid course content by Edible-Alpha®
Food Finance Institute Farm Outreach Specialist, Andy Larson walks you through what a balance sheet is, how to use it, and how it is different for farms versus non-farm businesses.
Unlimited Learner Pass holders or purchasers of the course – navigate to the course here
On-Demand Course about Financial Management for businesses that are Growing and Scaling | Startups
Deep Dive: Walk Through of Farm Financial Statements – Income Statement
45 minutes of Paid course content by Edible-Alpha®
Food Finance Institute Farm Outreach Specialist, Andy Larson walks you through what an income statement is, how to use it, and how it is different for farms versus non-farm businesses.
Unlimited Learner Pass holders or purchasers of the course – navigate to the course here
On-Demand Course about Financial Management for businesses that are Growing and Scaling | Startups
Deep Dive: Financing Your Value-Added Farm Series – Getting Capital Ready
2 hours of Paid course content by Edible-Alpha®
Unlimited Learner Pass holders or purchasers of the course – navigate to the course here
On-Demand Course about Raising Capital for businesses that are Growing and Scaling | Startups
Deep Dive: Building a Valuable Food Brand
50 minutes of Paid training by Edible-Alpha®
Unlimited Learner Pass holders or purchasers of the course – navigate to the course here
On-Demand Course about Sales and Marketing for businesses that are Growing and Scaling | Startups
Deep Dive: Getting Your Food Products Online
1 hour of Paid course content by Edible-Alpha®
Unlimited Learner Pass holders or purchasers of the course – navigate to the course here
On-Demand Course about Sales and Marketing for businesses that are Startups | Growing and Scaling
Deep Dive: 13-Week Rolling Cash Flow – Forecasting & Debt
1 hour of Paid course content by Edible-Alpha®
Unlimited Learner Pass holders or purchasers of the course – navigate to the course here
On-Demand Course about Financial Management for businesses that are Startups | Growing and Scaling
Deep Dive: What Your Food Business Financial Statements Are Telling You
2 hours of Paid course content by Edible-Alpha®
Unlimited Learner Pass holders or purchasers of the course – navigate to the course here
On-Demand Course about Financial Management for businesses that are Startups | Growing and Scaling