• "Two Vegetable Wash Station Designs" is an online tool developed by the FVWG and available on the Leopold Center website. These detailed instructions and diagrams explain how to build two types of low-cost vegetable wash stations.
• Iowa Fruit and Vegetable Market Planner is a web-based tool developed by the ISU Institute for Transportation and the Leopold Center. The application calculates rates of demand for 80 crops, with settings for regions in/around Iowa, consumers by age group, various time frames and product mixes.
• Post-Harvest Handling Decision Tool, developed by Iowa State University Extension Value Added Agriculture Program and the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
• View photos [PDF] taken for the Post-Harvest Handling Decision project. By Chris Blanchard of Rock Spring Farms.
• Handle with Care, a Rodale Institute article written by working group leader Malcolm Robertson
• A new book details how farmers can use cooperative marketing to best market their produce. Download Local Harvest: A multifarm CSA Handbook  for free here, or order print copies here. 

FOR INDUSTRIES:

• Resources for Fruit and Vegetable Industries
• Links to Other Industries

INFORMATIONAL MATERIALS:

• Fruit and Vegetable Working Group brochure [PDF]
• Fruit and Vegetable Working Group poster
• Iowa On-Farm Food Safety [PDF]
• Supply or Value Chain Working Group [PDF]
• Wash Station [PDF]

OTHER RESOURCES:

• Iowa Farm to School website 
  
• 30 Mile Meal Project- Athens, Ohio. View [PDF] of the collaborative effort of the region's local growers, producers and businesses. Also available is the Ohio Tri-State Farm and Food Conference Processing and Aggregation presentation [PDF]