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- FDA Food labeling information - May be superseded by your state's requirements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 Illinois Food Service Sanitation Code 750.4300, 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!
Looking for canning equipment and supplies?
Water bath canner with a jar rack
Pressure canners for gas, electric and induction stoves: Presto 23Qt or T-fal 22Qt
Canning scoop (this one is PERFECT)
Ball Blue book (most recent version)