I explored the barriers to home-canned foods a few years ago, and (unless there has been a policy change designed to diversify the market for food security)...
In no particular order, here is how I summarize our conversation thus far about starting an Oklahoma food retail food cooperative: 1. Several people have...
In our case the vendors are able to use the library facilities, the association has a key to the side door to use before the library opens. A half day is a...
The place to start is with the local chamber of commerce or downtown development. We have a small park which every Saturday from 7:00AM to noon is used for a...
http://www.uspswebtools.com/ShippingAssistant/sa_DownloadDocumentation.htm This is a FREE program provided by the US postal service. I am investigating...
My mom's cousin runs a Farmer's Market in the city near us. They set up every Tuesday and Saturday from about middle of May until the first frost. The way it...
This is a whole lot how our farmers market works here too but it is behind the library which brings many people in too. There is just one draw back to this as ...
Thanks for the link, ranchmama! There is a Sustainable Agriculture Producer Grant which is open right now and can be used for marketing development. I...
I'm Mark Parman. My wife, Erin, and I opperate Redbird Ranch Fare which is located 2.5 miles south of I-40 Exit 284. Rebdird Ranch is just under 400 acres. We...
Kathy, Thanks for a great contribution to the conversation. I made a nice flyer today, but I forgot to bring the doc home with me, I'll get it tomorrow and...
Good idea on the Dollar Store tag a long. Looking at what you posted about possible items for sale. Other than the vegetables you will be in a world of hurt on...
It is going to take some creativity to sell meats at the store. Under current Oklahoma laws, it is illegal for me to sell my chickens or turkeys when they are...
Anything that is cooked or processed and sold in the cooperative would have to be prepared in a health dept certified kitchen, which is why I want one on the...
I think all the places that process beef cattle also do pork, don't know about pigs. The Skeltons, whose meat we buy, use a usda plant in Stratford, Texas...
All- So is there still a public market down by Linwood in OKC, near the Black Hotel, about a mile West of downtown? If so, maybe that would be a good place to...
I would get something like this in writing from the guy that told you. I talked to the Lincoln County Health Dept. last week and he told me that they do make...
So, what is "PROPER" labeling? Do you label produce or just homemade things Also......I want the rcipe for the chocolate biscotti :o) Dona (who is quietly...
Hey Folks The State may exempt Farmers Markets from some things. But, each County can have regulations that are more restrictive than the State's. Just as...
Hey Folks The $8 a bird is not enough. We sell ours chickens for $2.50/lbs or $10 for a 4# bird and $2.75/# on Turkeys. Our eggs retail for between $2.50 to $3...
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/flg-toc.html U.S. Food and Drug Administration Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition A Food Labeling Guide September, 1994...
The way this is printed up would be a great resource for anyone to have on hand. This looks like it should be part of some kind of standard Farmers Co op...
In Oklahoma City, at the farmer's market, eggs are generally $2/dozen. There is one producer up by Edmond who sells direct from her farm and she charges...
No, I can't think of a public market in that area. There is a flea market at NW 10th and Pennsylvania, and there is a vegetable marketplace close to downtown,...
... From: Redbird Ranch Fare <redbird@...> ... to 20,000 birds >per year, the state can be more restrictive and in this case is very restrictive. It...
Here is one consideration you all might make. In Norman, Dodson's health food store has opted to go into the Brookhaven area which has a much higher per...
... The deadline for getting a bill number for this session is passed, meaning that the only way to get something like this introduced this year would be as an...
Policy: Can we invite the Oklahoma Food Policy Board or one of its members to "lurk" and absorb some of these ideas? I think we're addressing some of the...
