Homemade for Sale, 2nd Edition

How to Set Up and Market a Food Business from Your Home Kitchen

Homemade for Sale, Second Edition is the authoritative guide to starting and running a home-based food business, now fully updated and expanded. From food product ideas and marketing, to profiles of successful cottage food and food freedom entrepreneurs, to navigating laws, get cooking and turn a hobby into a business.

By: John Ivanko, Lisa Kivirist

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Updated and expanded! The authoritative guide to conceiving and launching your own home-based food business – from idea to recipe to final product.

Follow your dream to launch a food business from your home and join the booming movement of food entrepreneurs.

Fully updated and expanded, Homemade for Sale, Second Edition is the authoritative guide to launching a successful food enterprise from your kitchen. It covers everything you need to get cooking for your customers, providing a clear road map to go from ideas and recipes to owning a food business. Contents includes:

Product development and testing
Understanding state cottage food and food freedom laws and advocacy
Independently tested recipes for non-hazardous food products, including frostings
Marketing and developing your niche
Step-by-step guides for packaging, labeling, and creating displays
Structuring and running your business while planning for the future
Bookkeeping and financial management
Managing liability, risk, and government regulations
Avoiding burnout through self-care and time management
Profiles of successful food entrepreneurs.

More people than ever are demanding real food made with real ingredients by real people, and you have the freedom to earn by starting a food business from home. No capital needed, just good recipes and enthusiasm, plus enough business know-how found in the pages of Homemade for Sale to be a success. Everything else is probably already in your kitchen. Best of all, you can start right now!

Book Awards

SILVER | 2023 Living Now Book Awards: How-To / DIY

About The Author(s)

Lisa Kivirist and John D. Ivanko are nationally recognised speakers and writers with 15 books between them including the award-winning ECOpreneuring, Homemade for Sale, Farmstead Chef, and Rural Renaissance. Lisa is the instructor for the best-selling online Udemy course: How to Start and Market a Food Business from Your Home Kitchen. Together, they spearheaded the first-ever Home-based Food Entrepreneur Virtual National Conference. Lisa served as a plaintiff in the successful lawsuit that legalized the sale of home-baked goods in Wisconsin. She also leads Soil Sisters, an award-winning project of Renewing the Countryside that supports women in sustainable agriculture and is the author of Soil Sisters: A Toolkit for Women Farmers. John is a photographer and the co-author for six award-winning multicultural children’s books including To Be a Kid, Come Out and Play, and Back to School. John and Lisa are innkeepers of the completely solar-powered Inn Serendipity B&B in Wisconsin.

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John D. Ivanko is a nationally recognised speaker, writer, instructor, and co-author of 15 books, including award-winning ECOpreneuring, Homemade for Sale, and Farmstead Chef. John is also a photographer and the co-author of six award-winning multicultural children’s books. With Lisa Kivirist, he runs the solar-powered Inn Serendipity B&B in Wisconsin.

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Starting a Home-based Food Business

ISBN: 9780865719699

Page Count: 384

Dimensions: 8 × 9 × 0.76 in

Publication Date: December 13, 2022

Images: Black & White Images

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