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[claude sweet <sweetent@home.com>]

The last regulations I saw did not allow someone to purchase produce 
from other farmers and resell the items at California Certified Farmers 
Markets (CFM).

The farmer must be the seller at a CFM in California. You are buying 
direct from the person who actually grows the items offered for sale. 
Other states have similiar regulations.

There is confusion with other farmer's markets that are not certified 
and in many case are only resellers - not even growing any produce items 
they are selling.

Claude Sweet
San Diego, CA

PRishel826@aol.com wrote:

> Hi All, I haven't yet read the article to which Betty referred, but I'm
> wondering about how many folks sell produce at local Farmer's Markets.  The
> Los Angeles Times just did an article on that...I'll try to find the
> link...mentioning a specific Ventura County farm that now ONLY sells to
> Farmer's Markets, prior to which the owner was barely solvent.  Los Angeles
> County alone supports over 50 weekly Farmer's Markets.  Personally 
> that's the
> ONLY place I buy fruit that I do not grow myself...except from a few 
> private
> growers with whom I directly contract for specialty items, such as 
> Ashmead's
> Kernal and Hawkeye Red Delicious apples...I haven't purchased from fruit 
> from
> a supermarket in a number of years.  Curious in L.A., Patricia Rishel



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