Homemade for Sale: How to Set Up and Market a Food Business from Your Home Kitchen - Softcover

Kivirist, Lisa; Ivanko, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0865717869 ISBN 13: 9780865717862

Publisher: New Society Publishers, 2015

Synopsis

From farm-to-fork and "Buy Local" to slow food and hand-made artisan breads, more people than ever are demanding real food made with real ingredients by real people. Widely known as "cottage food legislation," over forty-two states and many Canadian provinces have enacted recent legislation that encourages home cooks to create and sell a variety of "non-hazardous" food items, often defined as those that are high-acid, like pickles, or low moisture, like breads or cookies. Finally, "homemade" and "fresh from the oven" on the package can mean exactly what it says.

Homemade for Sale is the first authoritative guide to conceiving and launching your own home-based food start-up. Packed with profiles of successful cottage food entrepreneurs, this comprehensive and accessible resource covers everything you need to get cooking for your customers, creating items that by their very nature are specialized and unique. Topics covered include:

• Product development and testing
• Marketing and developing your niche
• Structuring your business and planning for the future
• Managing liability, risk, and government regulations

You can join a growing movement of entrepreneurs starting small food businesses from their home. No capital needed, just good recipes, enthusiasm, and commitment, plus enough know-how to turn fresh ingredients into sought-after treats for your local community. Everything required is probably already in your home kitchen. Best of all, you can start tomorrow!

Lisa Kivirist and John D. Ivanko are co-authors of Farmstead Chef , ECOpreneuring , and Rural Renaissance , and are innkeepers of the award-winning Inn Serendipity Bed & Breakfast (innserendipity.com).

About this title

Book Description

The authoritative guide for launching a successful home-based food enterprise, from idea and recipe to final product.

From the Back Cover

The authoritative guide to launching a successful home-based food enterprise, from idea and recipe to final product

Homemade for Sale can help you jumpstart your food business, guide your dream and help you make it a reality... Whatever your particular gift is in the kitchen, explore what you can do with it... You never know what could happen!
-- Nell Newman, co-founder, Newman's Own Organics

By the time you finish reading Homemade for Sale , you'll be wearing your farmers-market-John/jam-n-jelly-Jane hat in total confidence.
---MaryJane Butters, author, Milk Cow Kitchen , MaryJanesFarm.org

Recently, over 42 states and many Canadian provinces have enacted legislation that encourages cooks to create and sell a variety of food items from their own kitchen. From pies to pickles and granola to preserves, "from our house to yours" on the label can finally mean exactly what it says.

Homemade for Sale is the first authoritative guide to conceiving and launching your own home-based food start-up. Packed with profiles of successful cottage food entrepreneurs, this comprehensive and accessible resource covers everything you need to get cooking for your customers, creating items that by their very nature are specialized and unique. Topics covered include:

• Product development and testing
• Marketing and developing your niche
• Structuring your business and planning for the future
• Managing liability, risk and government regulations.

You can join a growing movement of entrepreneurs starting small food businesses from home. No capital needed, just good recipes, enthusiasm and commitment, plus enough know-how to turn fresh ingredients into sought-after treats for your local community. Everything required is probably already in your kitchen or pantry. Best of all, you can start right now!

Homemade for Sale is the perfect start [for] many thousands of food entrepreneurs today, [who are] making magic in their home kitchens and brushing elbows with farmers in packing sheds....
--- Severine v T Fleming, director, Greenhorns, co-founder, Farm Hack, National Young Farmers Coalition

Well-researched, loaded with examples, and perfectly tailored to the home cook, this book will point you in the right direction. For any first-time food entrepreneur, Homemade for Sale isn't recommended reading... it's required.
---David Crabill, co-founder, Forrager

Lisa Kivirist and John D. Ivanko are stirring up revolution at the highly acclaimed Inn Serendipity Bed & Breakfast (www.innserendipity.com), which they share with their son, millions of ladybugs, and a 10kW Bergey wind turbine. John and Lisa are also co-authors of Farmstead Chef, ECOpreneuring, Rural Renaissance and many other books.

To help bring you the very best inspiration and information about greener, more sustainable lifestyles, Mother Earth News is recommending select New Society Publishers books to its readers. This book is one of them.

Edition details

• Publisher: New Society Publishers
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0865717869
• ISBN 13: 9780865717862
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 240