Jeanetta

I reached out to St. Louis County today and I was told that cottage food bakeries in St. Louis County are not allowed to sell at vendor events or farmers markets that I would need to use a commisary or commercial kitchen. However, the information that I was looking up about whether I could have a cottage food business and also use a commisary…[Read more]

Yes, you can have both. You would need a separate permit to use the commissary kitchen, of course. Can you confirm that St. Louis County does not allow this law: https://forrager.com/law/missouri-individual-stands/

Melanie is correct. It is specified in the law under the CFO definition:

“Cottage food operation” means an operation conducted by a person who produces or packages food or drink… in a kitchen located in that person’s primary domestic residence or another appropriately designed and equipped kitchen on a farm for direct sale by the owner, a family…

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I understand that as a cottage baker I can only bake in MY home kitchen, but does that also mean that I CANNOT bake out of a commercial kitchen with the cottage food certificate and sell my products directly to my customers.

That’s exactly what it means. There is an intentional limitation created by restricting volume to that which can be m…[Read more]