David Crabill
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Typically any sweet fruit jelly is allowed. It should have a significant amount of sugar in it… low sugar preserves would likely not be allowed. Pepper jellies would not be allowed.
Yes, if you have a commercial license from the health dept, you’d be relatively unrestricted.
I’d recommend a sole-proprietorship. Please see here: http://forrager.com/groups/california/forum/topic/can-you-expand-answer-on-llc/
This wouldn’t fall under the cottage food law. You’ll need to talk to the health dept.
There is no legal way to sell homemade cheesecakes in TN. Your mom needs a commercial license, which would also allow her to take online orders and do interstate sales. http://forrager.com/faq/#commercial
Yes, you can do any direct sales to customers.
You mean food stamps? I really don’t know.
You can run it as a partnership, but each business has the $45,000 sales restriction, so that’d be $22,500 of sales (not profit) max per person.
The requirements don’t change much for Class B. You need to get an inspection so you can sell to stores and restaurants, and you can only do those indirect sales within your county, unless another county has an agreement with yours.
I have talked with a government official in North Dakota, which is the only reason ND is green on the map. Even though they don’t have laws, they regularly allow small producers to run their food businesses from home. I’d say you’d be best off talking to your ag dept and seeing what they allow.
Yeah Raf decided to take down Cottage Meal in favor of GrubMarket… I’ve talked with him a few times and he just doesn’t have the development team to improve his site.
This site was born out of our efforts building an online marketplace for cottage foods — an endeavor that failed. There have been many more since we did it over a year ago. The only ones left are all new as of the past few months: homemade1616.com, doughbies.co, omunchi.com, foodieshares.com, & grubmarket.com. All of the ones that started last year either pivoted or shutdown. Some CFOs have found some success simply listing their products on Square’s marketplace. Of course there is also Etsy and Good Eggs, both bigger players that have their own limitations.
So the reason you may see limited options is because that marketplace approach to this community hasn’t taken hold for whatever reason. Most CFOs are not like you, actively looking to sell their products online. They do list them, but usually via their own site or Facebook page. Our marketplace offering last year had hundreds of hours of development work and had a nicer design than this site, so I don’t think the technical aspects were holding it back.
I will not be adding a marketplace component to this site anytime soon, but I will be adding the ability for CFOs to list their products. Purchasing and delivery will be handled elsewhere, either on another site or over the phone. So basically, this site will serve as an information portal, as it already does to a more limited degree. It would be nice if there were some semi-comprehensive list of CFOs that people could find.
