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Help with new Farmer's Market business
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David Crabill 10 years, 1 month ago.
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Hi All, I will be selling homemade salsa’s at our local farmers markets here in Orlando, but I am having a heck of a time getting straight answers on what exactly I need. Finally this site has told me I do not fall under the Cottage Food Law(unfortunately) but I have a couple questions I was hoping I could get answers to. I will be making my product at a local certified commercial kitchen, and will be certified with the state, and have my food safety managers card, but do I need anything else? Are there restrictions on where I get my products to make my salsas(I actually purchase from farmers markets for this) Do I need to register to pay sales tax? I have a LLC that I work under, so federal is covered. I just want to make sure I don’t get shut down on my first market! Thanks in advance
Have you called your health dept yet? Most of the questions you asked don’t have general answers and would be determined by your county or city. It’s not necessarily true that you can run your food business under the LLC that you already have, though sometimes corporations can have multiple businesses associated with them. Basically you just need to keep calling govt depts until you get the referrals you need and find people who know what they’re talking about.
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