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The current economic downturn and job loss caused by COVID-19 vividly highlights why my husband, John Ivanko, and I have been on a mission for the last decade to increase access to and opportunities for us to diversify our homestead income by selling shelf-stable, non-hazardous food items like breads, cookies, pies, jams, pickles, candies and other items that are truly homemade.
Amidst the unpredictability and unknowns currently in our world, there’s one thing you can be sure of: There is no better time to follow your dream of launching your food product business from home under your state’s cottage food law. Cottage food laws allow the sale of non-hazardous food items, like baked goods or high-acid canned items made in your home kitchen.