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Enigma1
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Selling Edibles
#19245942 - 12/08/13 04:29 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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I going to give selling edible mushrooms at the farmers market and local non corporate restaurants a try . Is there some kind of legal disclaimer I need to cover my butt .
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Hashbuble
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Re: Selling Edibles [Re: Enigma1]
#19245947 - 12/08/13 04:31 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Are you growing or picking them?
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drake89
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Re: Selling Edibles [Re: Enigma1]
#19246160 - 12/08/13 05:16 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Enigma1 said: I going to give selling edible mushrooms at the farmers market and local non corporate restaurants a try . Is there some kind of legal disclaimer I need to cover my butt .
liability insurance couldn't hurt
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Enigma1
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Hashbuble said: Are you growing or picking them?
Growing
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Re: Selling Edibles [Re: Enigma1]
#19246515 - 12/08/13 06:33 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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drake89 said: liability insurance couldn't hurt

You'll most likely need health permit from your county environmental health department too.
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Forrester
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pseudotsuga said:
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drake89 said: liability insurance couldn't hurt

You'll most likely need health permit from your county environmental health department too.
Health permit? For what?
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If you are cultivating edibles you should have no problem at the farmers market. What else I recommend is that you start making some contacts with Chefs at Hi scale eateries. Chef's know whats up. so they are usually interested in getting hooked up. Asian Markets is another good place to hit up.
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drake89
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pseudotsuga said:
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drake89 said: liability insurance couldn't hurt

You'll most likely need health permit from your county environmental health department too.
if you're doing it out of your apartment or something, maybe. probably not if you're in an agricultural zone.
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Re: Selling Edibles [Re: drake89]
#19247251 - 12/08/13 09:07 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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If you're in California you will need a Certified Producer's Certificate to sell at Farmers Market.
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Re: Selling Edibles [Re: farmerb]
#19247280 - 12/08/13 09:14 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Wow. Here in Ontario you need nothing.
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Forrester
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Versicolor said: Wow. Here in Ontario you need nothing.
Nor here, raw agricultural goods are fair game 
Long as you're not processing.
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FoxFire
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Same here. All I needed was a $20 business licence for the farmers market. I even looked into getting a processing licence so I could dry and package. It would have required a basic sanitation setup and $55. 
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Re: Selling Edibles [Re: FoxFire]
#19247852 - 12/08/13 11:07 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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FoxFire said: It would have required a basic sanitation setup and $55. 
Now THAT'S what I need. I wanna sell dried stuff!
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drake89 said: liability insurance couldn't hurt

You'll most likely need health permit from your county environmental health department too.
Health permit? For what? 
Here in California you need a simple inspection by county environmental health to make sure you are handling and storing food correctly even if it is a raw agricultural product. It isn't too expensive and is a requirement for my local markets.
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Good luck! What state are you in? What varieties are you growing?
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Re: Selling Edibles [Re: hgmstl]
#19249003 - 12/09/13 07:15 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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hey, this sounds a lot (as in exactly the same) as what I want to do. I am curious as to what varieties you will be growing and if there is much of a market.
I feel like I've spent so much time learning to grow mushrooms, that it would be a waste to not put said skills to use.
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liamtheloser
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Re: Selling Edibles [Re: FoxFire]
#19249152 - 12/09/13 08:36 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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FoxFire said: Same here. All I needed was a $20 business licence for the farmers market. I even looked into getting a processing licence so I could dry and package. It would have required a basic sanitation setup and $55. 
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Sorry, but a business license in washington costs me 80 dollars for state license and another 60 for the city license. You might want to check to make sure your 20 dollar business license is legit. We both live in washington.
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In ohio you don't even need a business license to sell fresh unprocessed mushrooms. But like Forrester I someday want to sell dehydrated. They must of realized in Washington, being one of the bigger states for mushrooms, that they were missing out on their claim to your wallets :/
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liamtheloser
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In washington you could sell them without a business license, but not at some farmers markets (my local one requires a business license).
I think what foxfire was thinking is there's a standard business license fee of 60 dollars, then there is processing fees of 20 dollars, but on top of that, the style of business (in this case agriculture) also requires a separate endorsement. Maybe that endorsement costs 20 dollars. For retail license (what my business is) there is no endorsement fee.
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The catch here is you are required to have liability insurance at just about every farmers market. But at least that offers some advantage to you and looks good in the eyes of the buyer.
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liamtheloser said:
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FoxFire said: Same here. All I needed was a $20 business licence for the farmers market. I even looked into getting a processing licence so I could dry and package. It would have required a basic sanitation setup and $55. 
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Sorry, but a business license in washington costs me 80 dollars for state license and another 60 for the city license. You might want to check to make sure your 20 dollar business license is legit. We both live in washington.
My licence is a certified WA state business licence with UBI# from the state government website. Cost me $21 total. Maybe because I'm in a rural area it was less, but it seemed pretty unanimous.
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liamtheloser
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Re: Selling Edibles [Re: FoxFire]
#19251684 - 12/09/13 06:23 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Damn, I guess I feel cheated! What kind of business license is it? Reseller? Manufacturer? Agriculture?
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FoxFire
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It says it's just my sole proprietorship with the 'NAICS Definition: Mushroom Production' Whatever that means, I think it's what I actually typed in when I applied.

As for insurance, my farmers market does not require it. If I found a market that required me to have insurance, I'd go find different one... Being prudent however, I looked into it and Farmers was willing to give me 1 million in product liability for $35/ month.
Bottom line, keep it small-medium, and don't put up with any bullshit.
Edit: Come to think of it, the WA.gov website has changed, and I cant find the rout I used to get my licence, so they may have changed it.. 
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Edited by FoxFire (12/09/13 06:44 PM)
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CAP_TURTLE
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Re: Selling Edibles [Re: FoxFire]
#19252864 - 12/09/13 09:56 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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is 1 million your total agregate or per occurence?
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FoxFire
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I can't find the exact wording of the claim, but it seems as if it's a case by case basis. It was just a claim, so I didn't get to many details unfortunately.
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CAP_TURTLE said: The catch here is you are required to have liability insurance at just about every farmers market. But at least that offers some advantage to you and looks good in the eyes of the buyer.
Again I think it depends on the state. I know here in Utah we have never been asked for proof of insurance at the markets.
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Re: Selling Edibles [Re: nanncee]
#19259596 - 12/11/13 11:01 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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CAP_TURTLE said: The catch here is you are required to have liability insurance at just about every farmers market. But at least that offers some advantage to you and looks good in the eyes of the buyer.
Again I think it depends on the state. I know here in Utah we have never been asked for proof of insurance at the markets.
Also depends on the specific market and who's running it, here it can go either way
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CAP_TURTLE
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Usually the more pronounced markets here require it while the smaller, less popular ones do not. But i have definitley heard many people say they didn't need it in the us and in canada.
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