Project Name: Farming: Thriving behind the scenes
Project summary and highlights:
The Thunder Bay Federation of Agriculture hosted a conference and dinner for local members and small business owners with 4 key topics, grant writing, social media and marketing, farm finance and farmer mental health and wellness. The positive local response to the event was wonderful to see, the TBFA received excellent feedback on the topics and speakers expressed interest in partnering for future conferences.
Partnering Organizations:
Thunder Bay Community Economic Development Commission, donated speakers.
Lasting and relevant impact to the OFA membership:
The response to the conference was very positive from the attendees. Many agricultural small business owners struggle with the behind-the-scenes requirements of running a business. Providing our members access to the tools needed to be successful in business as well as developing to tools to improve mental wellness and the knowledge of when and where to get help when needed is vital to ensuring a strong agriculture sector in the Thunder Bay area for generations to come.