Eggs and a can of worms
I tend to be an inquisitive person. What's this? What's that? Hey Mister, Watcha doin?
This weekend Rich and I went to the annual meeting of the Dane County Farmer's Market. We aren't meeting people, but as new vendors, who have been on the waiting list for 3 years, we went. We had to. It was required.
So it was a meeting like all - long and boring. Except for the potluck which was fabulous. I didn't know it was a potluck because Rich read the invite and he doesn't know what a potluck is. At the very last second, I read the invite and grabded an unopened bag of organic cookies. I wasn't missing out on a potluck and you can't have any if you don't bring something. That's the rule. I LOVE POTLUCK. A Laotian women brought eggrolls. Not the crappy kind you get at Chinese places - the really good kind. They have a name - don't know what it is.
Anyway. Potluck was over, boring speakers finished and we're on to rules and regs. Food safety comes up. I ask a few questions - they get answered. no biggie.
Then - at the end of the meeting I ask food safety about eggs, "Says right here I need a mobile retail food licesne to sell eggs. Unless I sell them wholesale, then I need a food processing license. But the Beloit market tells me I need a food processing licesne. Which is it?" Well - round and round and we all don't know how to interpret to rules. So today, food safety calls and thanks me for alerting them to the issue. "Yes, you need a food processing license. You and everyone else selling eggs. Thanks so much for alerting us to this." So now we add to the list of things to do...
211. Get a certified kitchen
Very tricky. You have to have a building, sixty four sinks, hot and cold water, etc. etc. We're going to try, but that'll teach me to open my mouth again.
So when the neighbor stopped by today I found myself asking lots of questions about his milking shed. They are highly regulated too. "Got hot water? What about septic? Is that a small scale septic or just your average house septic?" Septic tanks? Why am I talking about that. Phew.
