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Starting an organic plant business

Posted by favorite_kitty Zone 5 (My Page) on
Mon, Dec 10, 12 at 16:57

Hello everyone :)

I am in the very beginning of hopefully starting an adventure towards building a greenhouse and selling organic vegetable and herb plants on my property.

I do know that you are required to have special permits and certification to call yourself "organic", and I obviously wouldnt have the money to do so, so was wondering what I can say. Can I still advertise my plants as organic if I am using organic soil and worm castings from my homegrown worms? What should I call them? Does anyone have any advice on what I would need to do to be able to have an organic business?

Thanks everyone!
Tamara


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RE: Starting an organic plant business

If you do not sell in excess of $5,000.00 per year you will not need to obtain organic certification.

Here is a link that might be useful: Organic certification introduction


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RE: Starting an organic plant business

Yup, not only that, it should work good. With good marketing.

This post was edited by TheMasterGardener1 on Tue, Dec 11, 12 at 13:20


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