Wyoming cottage food law
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Tier: Freedom. Sell almost anything direct to consumer with no sales cap. Often called a 'food freedom' law — local zoning is the main remaining constraint.
How to start in Wyoming
A practical path from “am I allowed?” to first sale. Not legal advice — confirm every step with Wyoming agencies and your local offices.
Confirm your products are allowed
Wyoming allows Extraordinarily broad: all homemade foods including TCS (potentially hazardous) foods such as dairy, eggs, quiches, pizzas, cooked vegetables, and baked goods with dairy/meat fillings — as long as transactions comply with the Act. Non-potentially hazardous foods (jams, pickled vegetables, baked goods without hazardous fillings, candies, granola, etc.) may even be sold through third-party vendors and retail shops. Potentially hazardous homemade foods (except eggs and dairy) must be sold by the producer or designated agent directly to the informed end consumer.. High-risk or refrigerated foods usually need a commercial kitchen — not a cottage exemption.
Choose sales channels you can actually use
Sales cap: No cap. Indirect / wholesale-style sales: Yes. Farmers markets and direct-to-consumer pickup are the usual start. Check county and city rules before advertising porch pickup.
Clear local zoning, licenses, and tax IDs
State cottage food rules are the floor. Your city or county may still require a business license, home occupation approval, HOA permission, or sales tax registration. Do this before you print an address on Instagram.
Registration, training, and kitchen rules
State registration: No. Food handler / training: No. Kitchen inspection: No. Complete certificates the market or agency will ask for.
Build compliant labels
Use the Wyoming label requirements on this site (and the free template). Match disclaimer language to the statute or agency guide before you print a batch.
Soft-launch, then first paid sales
Keep a simple sales log from day one so you stay under any annual cap. Soft-launch with pre-orders before a full market day.
Verify with official sources
Re-check the state cottage food page and your local health / planning office before you invest in equipment or marketing. Rules change.
What usually goes on the package
- Product name (common or usual name of the food)
- Business or producer name
- Producer address (or address alternative your state allows)
- Ingredients in descending order by weight
- Major allergen disclosures (e.g. wheat, milk, eggs, soy, tree nuts, peanuts, fish, shellfish, sesame)
- Net weight or quantity
- Home-kitchen disclaimer required by Wyoming (exact wording may be set by statute or agency)
This is a planning checklist compiled for home bakers. It is not legal, tax, or zoning advice.
Wyoming vs neighboring cottage food laws
Tier and sales-cap snapshot for Wyoming and nearby states. Click through for full rules, labeling, and county pages.
| State | Tier | Sales cap | Guide |
|---|---|---|---|
| WyomingYou are here | Freedom | None | This page |
| Colorado | Great | Tiered (see notes) | Colorado law → |
| Idaho | Great | None | Idaho law → |
| Montana | Freedom | None | Montana law → |
| Nebraska | Good | None | Nebraska law → |
| South Dakota | Good | None | South Dakota law → |
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Extraordinarily broad: all homemade foods including TCS (potentially hazardous) foods such as dairy, eggs, quiches, pizzas, cooked vegetables, and baked goods with dairy/meat fillings — as long as transactions comply with the Act. Non-potentially hazardous foods (jams, pickled vegetables, baked goods without hazardous fillings, candies, granola, etc.) may even be sold through third-party vendors and retail shops. Potentially hazardous homemade foods (except eggs and dairy) must be sold by the producer or designated agent directly to the informed end consumer.
Registration: No. Food handler cert: No.
Wyoming Statutes Title 11 Agriculture, Livestock and Horticulture, Chapter 49 Marketing Homemade Foods, §§11-49-101 through 11-49-104 (Wyoming Food Freedom Act)
Verbatim excerpt11-49-101. Short title. This act is known and may be cited as the "Wyoming Food Freedom Act." 11-49-102. Definitions. (iv) "Homemade" means food that is prepared or processed in a private home kitchen, that is not licensed, inspected or regulated; (v) "Informed end consumer" means a person who is the last person to purchase any product, who does not resell the product and who has been informed that the product is not licensed, regulated or inspected; (vi) "Producer" means any person who grows, harvests, prepares or processes any food or drink products on the person's owned or leased property, does not produce more than two hundred fifty thousand (250,000) individual food or drink products annually and does not exceed two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000.00) in gross revenue annually from the food and drink products; (x) "Non-potentially hazardous food" means food that does not require time or temperature control for safety including limiting pathogenic microorganism growth or toxin formation. "Non-potentially hazardous food" includes, but is not limited to, jams, uncut fruits and vegetables, pickled vegetables, hard candies, fudge, nut mixes, granola, dry soup mixes excluding meat based soup mixes, coffee beans, popcorn and baked goods that do not include dairy or meat frosting or filling or other potentially hazardous frosting or filling; (xi) "Potentially hazardous food" means food that requires time or temperature control for safety including limiting pathogenic microorganism growth or toxin formation. "Potentially hazardous food" includes, but is not limited to, foods requiring refrigeration, dairy products, quiches, pizzas, frozen doughs, meat and cooked vegetables and beans. 11-49-103(b). Unless otherwise provided in this section, homemade food products produced, sold and consumed in compliance with the Wyoming Food Freedom Act shall be exempt from state licensure, permitting, inspection, packaging and labeling requirements. 11-49-103(c)(i). Transactions shall be directly between the producer and the informed end consumer, except as otherwise provided by this act. A producer may utilize a designated agent to facilitate a transaction. The seller of eggs, dairy products or a homemade food product consisting of non-potentially hazardous food may be the producer of the item, a designated agent of the producer or a third party vendor including a retail shop or grocery store as long as the sale is made in compliance with this act.
Source: tetoncountywy.gov/DocumentCenter/View/37981/Wyoming-Food-Freedom-Act-2025 →
Wyoming Cottage Food Law — Full PDF report
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Wyoming Cottage Food Law — Official Guidance Summary
Official agency guidance changes without notice. The text below is reproduced for reference only — always confirm current rules on the agency website before relying on it.
- Wyoming Department of Agriculturehttps://wyoleg.gov/2017/Enroll/HB0129.pdf
Wyoming's cottage food rules are set by Wyo. Stat. §11-49-101 through §11-49-104 (Wyoming Food Freedom Act). The summary below is drawn from Crosodo's verified statute research and official agency guidance. Always confirm current requirements on the state agency website before you sell.
Program basics
- Wyoming Statutes Title 11 Agriculture, Livestock and Horticulture, Chapter 49 Marketing Homemade Foods, §§11-49-101 through 11-49-104 (Wyoming Food Freedom Act)
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Allowed products and sales channels
- Extraordinarily broad: all homemade foods including TCS (potentially hazardous) foods such as dairy, eggs, quiches, pizzas, cooked vegetables, and baked goods with dairy/meat fillings — as long as transactions comply with the Act.
- Non-potentially hazardous foods (jams, pickled vegetables, baked goods without hazardous fillings, candies, granola, etc.) may even be sold through third-party vendors and retail shops.
- Potentially hazardous homemade foods (except eggs and dairy) must be sold by the producer or designated agent directly to the informed end consumer.
- Meat products are generally excluded with specific exceptions (poultry up to 1,000 birds/year, live animals, rabbit meat, farm-raised non-catfish fish, animal shares under §11-49-104). Homemade or uninspected food cannot be served or used as an ingredient in a commercial food establishment.
- Interstate commerce is prohibited. Producers must not exceed 250,000 individual products or $250,000 gross revenue annually.
- Wyoming's Food Freedom Act allows considerably broader indirect sales than most states. Non-potentially hazardous foods, eggs, and dairy products may be sold through third-party vendors (retail shops, grocery stores) as long as the sale complies with the Act.
- The third-party seller must inform consumers that the food is not certified, licensed, or inspected, and non-potentially hazardous foods must be displayed separately from licensed products with a label stating 'this food was made in a home kitchen, is not regulated or inspected and may contain allergens.' Potentially hazardous homemade foods (except eggs/dairy) must be sold by the producer or designated agent only.
- A 'designated agent' may also facilitate transactions including marketing, transport, storage, and delivery without taking ownership of the product.
Labeling
- Homemade foods are broadly exempt from labeling requirements (§11-49-103(b)). However, the producer must inform the end consumer (verbally or by sign) that the food is not certified, labeled, licensed, packaged, regulated, or inspected.
- For retail/grocery store sales: non-potentially hazardous foods must be labeled 'this food was made in a home kitchen, is not regulated or inspected and may contain allergens.' Retail spaces selling homemade food must display a sign indicating it has not been inspected.
- Potentially hazardous homemade foods at retail locations adjacent to commercial food establishments require physical separation per §11-49-103(d).
Statute excerpt
- 11-49-101. Short title. This act is known and may be cited as the "Wyoming Food Freedom Act." 11-49-102. Definitions.
- (iv) "Homemade" means food that is prepared or processed in a private home kitchen, that is not licensed, inspected or regulated; (v) "Informed end consumer" means a person who is the last person to purchase any product, who does not resell the product and who has been informed that the product is not licensed, regulated or inspected; (vi) "Producer" means any person who grows, harvests, prepares or processes any food or drink products on the person's owned or leased property, does not produce more than two hundred fifty thousand (250,000) individual food or drink products annually and does not exceed two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000.00) in gross revenue annually from the food and drink products; (x) "Non-potentially hazardous food" means food that does not require time or temperature control for safety including limiting pathogenic microorganism growth or toxin formation.
- "Non-potentially hazardous food" includes, but is not limited to, jams, uncut fruits and vegetables, pickled vegetables, hard candies, fudge, nut mixes, granola, dry soup mixes excluding meat based soup mixes, coffee beans, popcorn and baked goods that do not include dairy or meat frosting or filling or other potentially hazardous frosting or filling; (xi) "Potentially hazardous food" means food that requires time or temperature control for safety including limiting pathogenic microorganism growth or toxin formation.
- "Potentially hazardous food" includes, but is not limited to, foods requiring refrigeration, dairy products, quiches, pizzas, frozen doughs, meat and cooked vegetables and beans. 11-49-103(b). Unless otherwise provided in this section, homemade food products produced, sold and consumed in compliance with the Wyoming Food Freedom Act shall be exempt from state licensure, permitting, inspection, packaging and labeling requirements. 11-49-103(c)(i).
- Transactions shall be directly between the producer and the informed end consumer, except as otherwise provided by this act. A producer may utilize a designated agent to facilitate a transaction. The seller of eggs, dairy products or a homemade food product consisting of non-potentially hazardous food may be the producer of the item, a designated agent of the producer or a third party vendor including a retail shop or grocery store as long as the sale is made in compliance with this act.
Official sources
- State agency cottage food page: https://wyagric.gov/divisions/chs/food-safety/wyoming-food-freedom
- Statute: https://wyoleg.gov/NXT/gateway.dll?f=templates&fn=default.htm
Summarized from official Wyoming cottage food statute research and agency guidance. Agency rules change — verify on the official site before relying on this information.
Wyoming Counties
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City zoning rules apply on top of the state cottage food law — home occupation, customer pickup, signage, and employees.
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Wyoming cottage food law — FAQ
Do I need a license or permit to sell homemade food in Wyoming?
Yes — No. Food handler certification: No.
What foods can I sell under the Wyoming cottage food law?
Extraordinarily broad: all homemade foods including TCS (potentially hazardous) foods such as dairy, eggs, quiches, pizzas, cooked vegetables, and baked goods with dairy/meat fillings — as long as transactions comply with the Act. Non-potentially hazardous foods (jams, pickled vegetables, baked goods without hazardous fillings, candies, granola, etc.) may even be sold through third-party vendors and retail shops. Potentially hazardous homemade foods (except eggs and dairy) must be sold by the producer or designated agent directly to the informed end consumer.
Is there a sales cap for cottage food in Wyoming?
None
How good is Wyoming's cottage food law?
Wyoming is a Freedom-tier cottage food state by Crosodo's rating criteria. Sell almost anything direct to consumer with no sales cap. Often called a 'food freedom' law — local zoning is the main remaining constraint.
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