From the January-February 2007: Volume 7, No. 1 issue.

Loretta Norris will assist you in improving your produce department’s financial performance by increasing turns and customer satisfaction, and meeting margin goals while decreasing losses and labor. Loretta can help you create or improve your distinctive produce department with product selection and merchandising improvements.

Heart to Hand
Loretta’s workbook Heart to Hand: A produce manager’s guide to creating a strong local program, is a results-oriented tool designed to guide all produce managers, regardless of experience, in creating and strengthening a sustainable local program.
Heart to Hand provides all the information you need to organize your local product program, including

* locating area farmers * writing annual agreements * monitoring weekly and annual product availability * tracking packs and prices * preparing for farmer meetings

This Excel workbook is available for $100. To obtain a copy of CDS’ Heart to Hand, contact Loretta Norris at 608-250-6494 or lorettanorris@cdsfood.coop.