Selling from farm gate

[farmerbrown]

I have a small holding (very small holding) that is ideally placed to sell to passing trade. We are considering selling welsh cakes from a table top stall. We plan to make fresh every day, but these would be made in a domestic kitchen. i have seen another farm (many miles away) do this. i am tempted just to place a chalk board out side and just do it. Does anyone know the legality of this type of selling?

[Green Aura]

Sorry can't help with that but welcome to Ish.

[boboff]

As an accountant I can tell you this, you can sell "suplus goods" at your gate without any tax implications.

As an ex food production manager I think you would need to be inspected by the local EHO and they would be interested in watching you cook and looking at your kitchen, it really depends on whether you get a nice one or not as to the amount of hoops they make you jump through, but I suggest as a minium they would want records kept on all ingredients for traceability as well as you undertaking a basic food hygiene cource, and also being able to prove any key points in production under the HACCP system ( I would assume this would realistically only be proving temp of cooking) but I suspect you would also need to show inspection of raw materials, QC checks on consistency, stock rotation)

[Jandra]

Welcome, Farmerbrown.

I can't help with legal issues, I'm afraid, but ... Putting your general location in you profile would be helpful. You're probably not in the USA if you want to sell Welsh cakes, but one never knows.

Happy selling (I'll buy some, legal or not),
Jandra

[happy place]

my understanding of this is that if you produce the item to be sold market as home made and sell direct to the consumer no-one is that intereasted (i think a case of buyer beware) if you are buying in things then asembling them as against making every bit from scratch ie buying in ready made pastry then it is a differant ball game.
i would talk to your local council and ask some questions but try not to tell them your name or address then you can ignore thier advice and deny any knowlage if you chose altenatively contact a group called country market ( http://www.country-markets.co.uk/ ) they will know some of the answers.
but to be honest i would just do it and stop if asked to