Supervisors seek to make vendor participation easier at events on farms

The county of San Diego’s latest plans to promote local agriculture include preliminary steps to reduce the regulatory burden for those who provide goods or services at community events on commercial agricultural properties.

A 3-0 San Diego County Board of Supervisors vote May 16, with Greg Cox and Kristin Gaspar absent, directed the county’s chief administrative officer to explore options to ease the ability of local small-scale businesses to provide food and goods at community events on agriculture-producing properties, to add to the county’s legislative program support for state legislative...