Start Your Cottage Food Farmstead Bakery Today!
Want to diversify your farm business mix by selling baked goods made in your home kitchen that use produce you have in abundance? That is what this North Central SARE Farmer Rancher Project is all about.
Increasing Value-added Product Sales through Cottage Food (FNC18-1130) and Resources & Recipes to Support Farmers to Diversify Income through Value-Added Bakery Product Sales (FNC21-1282) brought together a farmer-led team along with baking experts to create recipes using abundant items like zucchini and pumpkin and to develop marketing resources, professional packaging, display ideas to increase sales.
Free Online Project Webinar
Start your Farmstead Bakery: Recipes & Resources
Start your Farmstead Bakery: Recipes & Resources Project overview webinar recorded on 6/15/23 with project team members Dela Ends, Jobea Murray, and Lisa Kivirist. After a brief overview of the cottage food scene, we give a recap of this project’s resources and learnings, including basics on non-hazardous recipes.
Hosts: Dela Ends, Scotch Hill Farm; Jobea Murray, Jobea Bakes; and Lisa Kivirist, Inn Serendipity Farm and Co-author of Homemade for Sale.