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West Virginia Perishable Foods

In 2026, West Virginia passed SB 44 to allow many types of homemade perishable foods to be sold. Producers should only use this law if they want to sell perishable foods (including acidified foods). Producers who only want to sell non-perishable foods are better off using West Virginia’s older cottage food law. Under this law,… [read more]

Kentucky

For many years, only Kentucky farmers could sell homemade food, leaving it as one of the last states without a basic cottage food law. But that changed in 2018 when the law was amended (HB 263) to make it available to everyone. With this law, home-based processors can make many types of non-perishable foods and… [read more]