Author Topic: Selling surplus veg at the farmgate (Read 11814 times)

manian · « **Reply #15 on:** July 08, 2011, 07:38:58 am »

right i'm moving.....where are you
(unless these are new regs....... it was last septmber when we were asking
Mx

Sylvia · « **Reply #16 on:** July 08, 2011, 08:59:31 am »

And I've never tried to find out so will stay ignorant and pretend I never saw that post

(I have got my food hygiene certificate though and a clean kitchen

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Hermit · « **Reply #17 on:** July 08, 2011, 04:46:47 pm »

I have noticed a few 'free range' signs being removed from egg for sale signs up here lately. You have to be accredited that like 'organic' .So someone is upset.

Fleecewife · « **Reply #18 on:** July 08, 2011, 06:02:59 pm »

Quote from: Hermit on July 08, 2011, 04:46:47 pm

I have noticed a few 'free range' signs being removed from egg for sale signs up here lately. You have to be accredited that like 'organic' .So someone is upset.

I understood that the need to be approved to call your eggs 'free range' had been removed about a year ago.

Hermit · « **Reply #19 on:** July 08, 2011, 07:14:30 pm »

I was inspected for free range less than a year ago, it was seven months I believe without looking at my paperwork but you may be right, I have not heard anyhthing myself though.

Plantoid · « **Reply #20 on:** July 08, 2011, 10:42:19 pm »

Just have to refer to your eggs as " Range eggs " or From the range eggs then

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Fleecewife · « **Reply #21 on:** July 09, 2011, 01:59:39 am »

I used to call mine something like 'fresh farm eggs' before the rules changed. It might be different south of the border?

ellied · « **Reply #22 on:** July 09, 2011, 08:51:31 am »

Do farm gate regs apply if selling excess at a car boot sale?

Last few years a local cat charity has collected buckets of my plums to sell at £1 a punnet at a local carboot - could I take fruit, eggs, veg along if I've grown it myself? Is is just baking/chutneys etc that need indoor preparation that require food hygiene and inspections for labelling etc?

Anybody know what Fife and Perth & Kinross want of you? I'm in Fife but carboots are in both regions. I'd gladly declare the income as I doubt I'll reach the tax threshold anyway

but I don't like public embarrassment if there are inspectors wanting paperwork I don't have.. I don't mind going to a food hygiene course if required but it's an extra expense if not needed, and I'm not actually doing anything bar perhaps washing and weighing into containers.

I always have far too many cooking apples and plums for my needs, beans too and there are only so many jars of chutney or bags of frozen veg I can store and use in a year

DJ_Chook · « **Reply #23 on:** July 09, 2011, 10:07:21 am »

Quote from: ellied on July 09, 2011, 08:51:31 am

Do farm gate regs apply if selling excess at a car boot sale?

-could I take fruit, eggs, veg along if I've grown it myself? Is is just baking/chutneys etc that need indoor preparation that require food hygiene and inspections for labelling etc?

I was wondering the same myself. I see people at carboots selling jam, chutneys, homemade cakes, homegrown fruit & veg. I even saw someone selling hens eggs which weren't Class A, stamped or even had a name/address on. The carboot organisers didn't appear to have a problem with it but I saw no council/environmental health inspectors. It would be mortifying to be told to stop selling those items or be prosecuted for it.

(Location: Powys, Mid wales UK)