David Crabill
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I really don’t know, as this is a sourcing issue that health depts in CA seem to be very particular about, especially since you’re sending an ag-based product across state lines into CA. If you followed the appropriate regulations to legally get your raw wheat it into CA (may not be possible), then your sons would have to check with the environmental health dept to see if sourcing their wheat from you would be allowed. I think it’s pretty unlikely to be allowed unless you have the licenses to sell wheat outside of Michigan.
I think that would be allowed, but double check with the dept at 800-292-3939
John, you may be able to can the salsa under Wyoming’s cottage food law, assuming that your salsa has a pH of 4.6 or below. You would need to check with the ag dept (Dean – 307-777-6587 or Linda – 307-777-6592) to see if they would allow salsa in general, or if your product needs to be tested. You wouldn’t be able to sell the salsa uncanned.
You wouldn’t need to abide by any other state laws, but there may be local laws that you need to follow, such as getting a business license or another local permit. Check with your planning division to see if there are any other restrictions. Good luck!
You can sell dry tea with the cottage food law, but you can’t sell homemade brewed tea. If you want to sell (non-homemade) brewed tea outside of your home, you’d need a commercial license: http://forrager.com/faq/#commercial
You should call your ag dept to make sure there aren’t any exemptions you can take advantage of.
You don’t need a license from the health or ag depts, but your county still might require other licenses/permits, like a business license. And even if they don’t, the farmers market itself may require certain permits. Farmers markets also have the ability to turn you away because you’re homebased, even though you’re a legal business. So it could be as easy as you described, but you also might have to jump through a few hoops before you start selling, and you may not be able to sell at some locations without a commercial license.
No, it wasn’t passed and there is still no cottage food law in New Jersey.
Because this was posted in the Q&A forum, rather than a state’s forum, I was giving a very generic answer about how usually herbal tinctures and medicines are approved by the health dept. Typically, even the ingestible products would not be considered cottage food products due to the claims made on them.
But there isn’t a blanket answer to this, which is why you should check with your local health dept to see what is or is not allowed in your area.
I am going to be building a labeling system into this website, but that won’t be available for at least a few months. I know there are companies that will take over printing your labels, but I don’t know any that will also figure out how to arrange the label. You could hire a designer to make your labels, but that would probably be expensive.
A lot of CFOs make their labels in Microsoft Word and use a standard Avery label to print them out. If you don’t want to do it yourself, I’d recommend finding someone nearby — perhaps someone young with time on their hands — to make your labels this way.
Dry tea is allowed in some states: http://forrager.com/laws/
You need a commercial license, which will free you from almost all of the limitations you’re concerned about: http://forrager.com/faq/#commercial
You do need to talk to your health dept and I think Etsy is a good place to start online. However, local sales are usually an easier starting point for getting a food business off the ground.
