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Alexis Kron with Bakednaz

Alexis Kron of Bullhead City, AZ shares how she built a successful cottage food bakery selling luxury custom cakes, despite overcoming personal challenges and facing resistance from her community

Arizona – HB 2864

Was trying to allow the sale of freeze-dried fruits and vegetables, but HB 2042 passed instead, making this bill no longer needed.

Arizona HB 2042

Will replace their current cottage food law with a food freedom law. Will greatly expand the types of products producers can sell, including perishable foods and certain items with meat. Will require perishable foods to be sold directly to the consumer. Will add some restrictions to indirect sales of nonperishable foods.

Episode 100: Where Are They Now?

In this very special 100th episode, previous guests come back on to share an update of what’s changed since they were last on the show, what’s surprised them, and what they’ve learned along the way

Arizona HB 2509

Would have replaced their current cottage food law with a food freedom law. Would have greatly expanded the types of products producers can sell, including perishable foods and certain items with meat. Would have required perishable foods to be delivered in-person. Would have added some restrictions to indirect sales of nonperishable foods.

Arizona HB 2781

Would have replaced the cottage food law with a food freedom law which would have allowed many types of perishable foods.

Arizona

Arizona created their initial cottage food law in 2011 (HB 2103) and amended it in 2018 (SB 1022) to allow more types of food products. Arizona has one of the most successful cottage food programs of any state, with over 10,000 businesses registered as of 2021. This success is in large part because Arizona has… [read more]

Go Big AND Go Home with Debbie George

Debbie George of Gilbert, AZ shares how she sold over 10,000 homemade custom cookies in her first year of business by going all-in, networking with other businesses, and focusing on B2B sales.

Arizona SB 1022

Added more allowed (non-PHF) foods, changed labeling requirements (removed home address), required food safety training for all producers, required registration renewal every 3 years

Sammy Cakes

My name is Sammy, I have an associates degree in patisserie and baking from the Le Cordon Bleu. I have been making cakes since 2009 and I love what I do! All my work is done from home please feel free to visit my website for pictures of some of the work I have done… [read more]

Baked Good 2014

Established in 2014. Baked Good is a “Pop-Up Bakery” founded by Guillaume Boulard (baker, musician, producer, accountant and agriculturist) and Charity MacDonald (Producer, Director, Editor of Digital Media, Performance Installation Artist and owner of dddeyes.com). He is originally from Marseille, France but grew up in Paris and I am originally from Arizona but set other… [read more]

Arizona HB 2103

Arizona’s initial cottage food law, allowing for the sale of baked and confectionary goods from any venue within the state