Local Food Collaboration Summit Connecting Growers for Success with Skylar Falter

Center for Agricultural Profitability · Oct 12, 2026

Skylar Faltar, program coordinator with Buy Fresh Buy Local Nebraska, joins Nebraska FARMcast to talk about the Local Foods Collaboration Summit on Nov. 9 in Lincoln. She explains what collaboration can look like for local food producers, from coordinated deliveries and shared processing space to group purchasing and cooperatives, and how to decide between a formal and informal arrangement. Faltar also covers who the summit is for, why building relationships takes as much work as the business idea, and what technical assistance funding is available to groups that want to keep going. The…