california: I live in California and grow fruits/vegetables, herbs, and medicinal plants. I would like to grow everything on a larger scale and start selling at the farmers market. But I need to become a certified farmer to do that, so what kind of criteria must be met, and how would I start the process?|||You become a certified farmer by having the county agricultural commissioner come and inspect your land and see that you are, in fact, growing the crops that you claim yourself. Then you will receive a certificate with these crops, expected yields and seasons. This allows you to participate in certified farmer's markets with only the crops listed. organic certification is different. So, bottom-line: CALL YOUR COUNTY AGRICULTURAL COMMISSIONER and set up an appointment to have your ground inspected.|||If you are looking to be certified organic then there is a process the USDA puts forward... http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/Organic鈥?/a> If you are looking to join an organized farmers market, then you need to contact the group in charge to see what you need to do to apply to be a vendor. Some of them have you declare your varieties and methods and get on a waiting list to be able to sell at their market.|||LOL, "medicinal plants", yea right.|||you can not.