Dave Carter is a Regional Director of Regional Technical Assistance Coordination for the Flower Hill Institute, an indigenous-led nonprofit organization coordinating the technical assistance network USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service established in 2022 to support producers seeking to create a more resilient, diversified, and equitable meat and poultry processing system in the United States.
The Flower Hill team has successfully fielded more than 1,300 requests for technical assistance since March 2022 and assists those clients in federal grant applications, business and marketing plan development, supply chain management, byproduct utilization, and workforce development.