The purpose of this workshop is to provide a public forum for discussion of the report on small farms entitled, “Small Farms: Recommendations to Minimize Costs While Ensuring Food Safety”, which was provided to the Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Florida Legislature by the Commissioner of Agriculture in accordance with the implementing language in House Bill 5001 of the 2010 Legislature. The Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (DACS) will take comment from small farmers and the public on this report and engage in discussion on how best to organize and apply the recommendations of this report with regards to rule language development and program implementation. This first of several anticipated public workshops will focus on the report recommendations and development of a organizational plan to proceed with review of the primary focus areas identified in the report. An electronic copy of the report may be obtained by accessing the DACS Division of Food Safety at www.freshfromflorida.com/fs/. A hard copy may be obtained by contacting: Daniel Hixson, Government Analyst, Division of Food Safety, 3125 Conner Building, Mail Stop #C-18, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-1650, Telephone: (850)245-5595.