Cheryl Gaston

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]

Peggy, I see you haven’t gotten any replies to your question. Why is this group not active, do you know?

I think the only way you can sell homemade jams/jellies online and via retail stores is by getting a domestic kitchen license.