Market Farming

[Lucy Goodman <goodows AT infinet.com>]

Pat Call the Ohio dept. of Agriculture (their web site might have the 
information on it but I have found the site hard to navigate and lots of 
pages are missing) and ask.

There are no national rules for farmer's markets unless you happen to 
sell at a USDA market. Most in Ohio are not USDA market but locally run 
markets. generally to sell baked goods they have to come from a licensed 
facility. There are few restrictions of produce but value added stuff 
(bagged things specifically cannot take up more than a 10'x10'x2' area 
or else they have to come out of a licensed facility. But there are many 
many exceptions to the Ohio farmer's market rules as they are very badly 
written. I believe you will want to talk to the marketing people at ODA. 
I remember my husband went to a workshop on produce rules in Ohio a 
couple of years ago and he said there were at least 4 contradictions to 
every rule so that basically they were unenforceable.



Lucy Goodman
Boulder Belt Organics
New Paris, OH
Check out the Boulder Belt website:
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