Dear Friend,
Home-based food businesses increased over the last year, partly due to COVID-induced effects. As with regulations governing raw milk production, meat processing, and other farming activities, the laws addressing the cottage food industry vary by state, and even at the county level, with some leaning more restrictive and others being very permissive. Read our recent “A Cottage Food Business Primer” for more about selling your own jams, breads, and canned goods as a side hustle.
If you want a deeper dive exploring cottage foods as a business, our friend and homemade foods activist Lisa Kivirist has a new online course on “How to Start & Market a Food Business from Your Home Kitchen.” For a limited time, use coupon code FTCLDF to get the course for just $40 (originally $94.99), with $10 of each registration donated to us.
Lastly, we are thrilled to announce our involvement in the first Home-Based Food Entrepreneur National Virtual Conference happening next month, April 6-9! I will be the keynote speaker on Friday, April 9 from 1–1:30 p.m. I will explore the opportunities for small farmers and food producers in light of COVID-19 and address how some federal and local laws make it challenging for small producers to market directly to consumers, how some recent laws have eased the regulatory burden, and much more. Then I’ll answer questions from attendees. Tickets to this all-digital conference are super affordable at just $20.
As always, we at FTCLDF remain ready to support your livelihoods and we can help you get your home food business off the ground. It’s a benefit we provide to our artisan members (just $125 a year!) who work hard to feed their communities.
Thanks for being a part of this food freedom community.
In good health,
Alexia Kulwiec
Executive Director
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