Turn Your Love for Cooking into a Safe and Successful Homestead Food Business! 🧼 Health and hygiene are non-negotiable when it comes to preparing food for others. Working while sick or neglecting personal hygiene can contaminate food and lead to serious illnesses like food-borne outbreaks, colds and the flu. Protect your customers and your reputation by following these essential hygiene practices: 👐 Handwashing tips: Wet hands with warm, clean drinking water. Apply soap – enough to build up a good lather. Scrub hands and arms vigorously for 20 seconds. Be sure to clean between fingers and under fingernails. Rinse hands and arms thoroughly using warm, clean drinking water. Dry hands and arms using a single-use paper towel or hand dryer. Use the paper towel to turn off the faucet and/or open the door when leaving the restroom. 🚨 When to wash your hands: Before starting work Before and after eating, drinking, or smoking After using the bathroom When changing food preparation and processing tasks After touching your hair or clothing After coughing or sneezing After touching anything that might contaminate your hands 🤒 Stay home if you're sick! If you or anyone helping you has symptoms like diarrhea, vomiting, jaundice (yellowing of the skin and eyes), or a sore throat with fever, they should not handle food or enter the kitchen. Taking these precautions keeps your food safe and your customers healthy. Click the link for a detailed fact sheet! https://extension.unh.edu/resource/selling-homemade-food-products-new-hampshire-five-part-fact-sheet-series (fb)

Become a Mental Health First Aider! Join the movement to support mental wellness in your community! 🌟 💙 Mental Health Fist Aid (MHFA) is skills-based training that teaches people how to identify, understand and respond to signs and symptoms of a mental health or substance use challenge. Mental Health First Aiders learn a 5-step action plan to recognize the warning signs of a mental health or substance use challenge, provide help in crisis and non-crisis situations and understand where to turn for additional assistance. THE COURSE WILL REQUIRE: Mental Health First Aiders will complete a 2-hour, self-paced online course, and then participate in a 6.5 to 7-hour virtual Instructor-led session via Zoom. AFTER THE COURSE, YOU’LL BE ABLE TO: ✅ Recognize common signs and symptoms of mental health challenges. ✅ Recognize common signs and symptoms of substance use challenges. ✅ Understand how to interact with a person in crisis. ✅ Know how to connect a person with help. ✅ Use self-care tools and techniques. 👉 Join the more than 2.6 MILLION First Aiders who have chosen to be the difference in their community. Sign up now! https://extension.unh.edu/event/2025/04/adult-mental-health-first-aid-training-april-29-2025 (fb)