Presenter: Kyle Cox (Cox’s Farm Stand), Kjersten Oudman (Blue Sky Vegetable Co.), Laura Patzer (Cherry Rock Farm), and Martin Jones (Bear Butte Gardens)

Description: Four panelists share how they used work experience in specialty crops to prepare them for their current work, benefits of their previous work, and ideas to look for when finding experiences to learn from, whether that be a formal internship, or a summer job.

Recorded: Feb. 20, 2024

Video: Producer Experience

This segment was supported by the Specialty Crop Block Grant Program at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the USDA.