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Advice for selling at farmers markets
What products can be sold at a farmers market with out a license? What are cottage foods? How do livestock producers sell their products at farmers markets?
Ohio Farm Bureau produces the Legal with Leah podcast, on an as-needed basis, to discuss topics impacting farmers and landowners.
As we approach farmers market season, Ohio Farm Bureau Policy Counsel Leah Curtis shares what producers need to know as far as licensing goes for selling at a farmers market or even for goods made and sold from home.
I'm eternally grateful for the support Ohio Farm Bureau scholarships provided in helping me turn my dreams into reality.
I appreciate the benefit of having a strong voice in my corner. The extras that are included in membership are wonderful, but I'm a member because of the positive impact to my local and state agricultural communities.
I see the value and need to be engaged in the community I live in, to be a part of the decision-making process and to volunteer with organizations that help make our community better.
Farm Bureau involvement has taught me how to grow my professional and leadership experience outside of the workforce and how to do that in a community-centric way.
With not growing up on a farm, I’d say I was a late bloomer to agriculture. I feel so fortunate that I found the agriculture industry. There are so many opportunities for growth.
Labor has always been an issue, mainly because we are a seasonal operation. So that's a challenge finding somebody who only wants to work three months out of a year, sometimes up to six months.
Knowing that horticulture is under the agriculture umbrella and having Farm Bureau supporting horticulture like it does the rest of ag is very important.
If it wasn't for Farm Bureau, I personally, along with many others, would not have had the opportunity to meet with our representatives face to face in Washington.
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