I want to grow and sell vegetables from my garden in orange county Ca. All the farmers markets I have looked at are for certified farmers. How could I sell my produce with out being a certified farmer?
You should have to grow for your own use first and some of them you should gift to some of your friends or neighbors. So in this way you can get the experience of veg. growing and taking care of too. During this time you can search the best veg. market to sell them out. if you can get more than enough results then you should think for commercial point of view. Best of Luck
Why not grow them for your own use and just sell any extras to friends and co-workers? Or set up a farm stand in your yard. Market farming, if you want to make any money takes a lot of time to do it right. You need to learn how to both grow for market (very different than growing a home garden) and how to market because just because you grew produce does not mean anyone will buy it. You have to make sure you have enough produce to make it worth going to market and that means having on hand at least $200 worth of stuff to sell (and never expect to sell out, that happens rarely) so you can cover the costs of market fees, fuel to get to market and your time at around $5 an hour (not to mention all the time it took to grow and maintain those crops) If you have never grown a large garden (say 1/4 acre or better) than perhaps you need to work on that first.
