Homemade for Sale

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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.