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- From: road's end farm <organic101 AT linkny.com>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] New Farmers' Market question
- Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 12:06:37 -0400
Check your state laws; maybe you can form an agricultural cooperative in a hurry, and you should be able to get insurance for the cooperative.
You almost certainly do need to form some sort of formal organization; for this and other reasons. If there are disagreements (if? almost certainly there will be disagreements, of some sort, sooner or later) there needs to be some set of written-down standards for how to sort them out.
You might want to call more than one insurance carrier, in any case.
It's too bad this issue didn't surface until the day before opening! Maybe you could stand to put the insurance in somebody's name temporarily?
-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale
On Jun 1, 2006, at 10:44 AM, Lynn Wigglesworth wrote:
There is a new complication with our Farmers' Market, set to open
tomorrow. The insurance carrier (general liability)won't insure us as we
are (a bunch of people coming together for a Farmers' Market). The only
solution they see is for one or both of the organizers to put the
insurance in our name (provide our social security number). Whoever does
that would be a "sole proprietor" -- the entity -- that is responsible for
the market.
That doesn't sound like a good idea to me; I worry enough about the
liability on my own farm. I don't want to be responsible for a lot of
other people. Any thoughts on this?
Lynn Wigglesworth
Peasant Farmer
Tioga County, PA
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