or click here for the PickYourOwn.org starting page
Additional Cottage Food Home Business Information
- Cottage Food Regulations by state
- Forming your business - links to each state's Secretary of State's Office website
- Local state departments of health.
- FDA Food labeling information - May be superseded by your state's requirements
- Guidelines for Determining Metric Equivalents of Household Measures (October 1, 1993)
- Massachusetts's Food Processors Resource Manual - a practical guide for specialty food and start-up food processors published by the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources. The marketing and practical tips can be very useful to a cottage food kitchen in any state. The chapters are available online and as a downloadable document PDf format
- Taxes - collecting, reporting and remitting sales taxes on cottage food sales.
- Contact information to each state's County Extension Offices - they often have classes on home food preservation
Specific Fruit and Vegetable Picking and Preserving Guides and Recipes
After you go to Toledo-Lucas County Health Department, you may want to freeze, can or preserve the fruit or vegetables you get there. See these pages below for detailed, illustrated, step-by-step instructions that make it easy!
The Presto Pressure
canners are out
of stock, but T-Fal
is available!