At the Redondo Beach Farmers’ Market, Koreen Strandberg sells Chandler pummelos and oroblancos from Crown 12 Ranch.

Southland Farmers' Market Association

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In 2002, the Southland Farmers' Market Association worked with the California Department of Food and Agriculture's Certified Farmers' Market Advisory Committee to develop emergency regulations to deal with the challenge posed by unregulated partnerships in certified farmers' markets. On February 4, 2002, the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) adopted emergency regulations to deal with this problem until permanent regulations could be considered and adopted.

Southland Farmers' Market Association helped to draft and actively supported the emergency regulations that establish new requirements for partnerships that wish to sell at certified farmers' markets. The regulations provide a definition of partnership that requires it to be a separate entity from its individual members. As a separate entity, a partnership must obtain a certified producer's certificate to market its agricultural products. To produce these products, the partnership must practice the agricultural arts upon the land that the partnership exclusively controls.

CDFA has proposed that these emergency regulations be made permanent. The Department will receive comments on the proposed regulations until April 24, 2002.

Photos by David Karp

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