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Small farms and home cooks should be able to sell safe food to their neighbors. Here's where each state stands and how you can help change the rules.
State Rules Lookup · State rules
Follow today's rules while you work to change them. Selling against the rules can mean fines.
Colors use the homemade-food card in the State Rules Lookup. A row marked Confirmed or Starter is shown. A hidden VERIFY row says Still checking. This is not legal advice.
House Bill 402, Chapter 605, tells the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to convene a Home Food Processing Operator Work Group and report to the agriculture committees by the first day of the 2027 Regular Session.
2027 session · Virginia Acts of Assembly, 2026, Chapter 605 (HB 402)
HB 535, Chapter 320, raised the cottage food revenue cap from $50,000 to $100,000.
Oct 1, 2026 · Maryland General Assembly, HB 535 (2026)
HB 3720 renamed the law the Local Food Freedom Act and set the gross sales line at $250,000.
Nov 1, 2026 · Oklahoma Statutes, HB 3720 (OSCN)
A potentially hazardous cottage food vendor permit covers acidified, pickled, fermented, and temperature-controlled foods sold inside West Virginia.
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment says the Tamale Act does not go into effect until January 1, 2027.
Jan 1, 2027 · Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
H.R. 4700 and S. 2409, the Processing Revival and Intrastate Meat Exemption Act, are still in Congress. They would let a state allow custom-slaughtered meat to be sold inside that state.
Jul 23, 2025 · Congress.gov, H.R. 4700 and S. 2409 · S. 2409
Institute for Justice, homemade food
National Agricultural Law Center, Food Law in the States, 2026 update
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Let me sell my homemade food to my neighbors I make food at home and I want to sell it to my neighbors, under clear safety rules. Please look at our state's homemade food law and keep a fair path for small cooks. I am asking about the law. I am not asking you to favor any candidate.
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