Oregon

Debra, any cottage food bakery would be considered a business. Usually you don’t need to get an EIN unless you have employees. You don’t need to pay extra for a DBA if you use your own name, but you still might have to get a business license. And yes you can request an ID number from the ag dept to put on your labels.

I live in Oregon, and I have a question about being a cottage bakery.
Now if you’re say you’re a cottage bakery and you’re working from home, therefore you would not be considered a business would you?
And am I right or am I wrong, you would not have to get a EIN or sign up with the business administration? And also for a business name you don’t…[Read more]

I am curious if I need anything else besides my EIN and food handlers card to start cooking in my kitchen under the “cottage food business”?
Thanks for the input!
Rachael

Hi David, I see…. Forgive me, I wasn’t navigating properly! My bad!

Pam, there was a time a few years back when I wasn’t very active on here. But these days, I’ll make sure that any post receives a reply. I don’t see any forum posts from you where you’ve asked a cottage food question. You did reply to someone about a year ago, and I did respond to that back then. If you have any questions, please let me know!

I will start by saying that I don’t fully know. But based on this page, which states that you can sell non-PHF candy “in individual-sized portions for immediate consumption only”, my guess is that the exemption is only for sales at an event, where the individually-wrapped candy is intended to be consumed immediately after a sale. Naturally that…[Read more]

I’ve posted on this forum about Cottage Law rules and didn’t get any reply

They are separate, so you can make $40k total. And please note that the $20k for farm direct is only for acidified foods, like pickles and salsas. There is no limit for other things you sell under the farm direct bill.

Hi Pam, I did a poor job promoting the forums on this site. I’m currently making technical changes that should improve that over time, and make people more aware of them.

To answer this question, probably the best option is to use the Farm Direct Bill, but that requires someone to grow the produce themselves.

Otherwise, I’m not sure if…[Read more]