Your Kitchen.
Your Business.
Your Right.
NCFA monitors legislation, mobilizes members, and advocates for policies that protect and expand the rights of cottage food entrepreneurs across all 50 states.
The right to run your business isn't guaranteed — it's regulated.
Every state has its own laws governing what you can make, where you can sell, how much you can earn, and whether you can ship your products. Those laws can change at any time.
When a state raises its revenue cap, allows online sales, or removes unnecessary registration requirements, it opens new doors for thousands of entrepreneurs. When poorly written legislation threatens to add inspections, licensing, or barriers that treat home kitchens like commercial facilities, it can shut those doors.
NCFA exists to make sure cottage food entrepreneurs are represented when those conversations happen.
Significant changes are happening across the country.
Momentum is on our side — but maintaining it requires an organized, informed, and mobilized national community.
Updated its cottage food law in 2025 — reducing registration fees, expanding eligible business structures to include small LLCs, easing food safety training requirements, and permitting mail delivery of cottage food products.
Expanded its cottage food law in 2025, raising the annual sales cap to $150,000, allowing nonprofit cottage food producers, and permitting sales through certain third-party vendors.
Now allows cottage food to be sold online, over the phone, by mail, and — uniquely — to out-of-state customers, opening a new frontier for home-based food businesses.
Expanded to allow perishable and temperature-controlled foods — a major shift in what's possible for cottage food entrepreneurs in the state.
What NCFA advocates for
Reasonable revenue caps that reflect the real earning potential of cottage food businesses
Expanded sales venues — including online sales, delivery, and retail placement
Protection of cottage food entrepreneurs from municipal overreach and local bans
Sensible labeling requirements that protect consumers without imposing commercial-grade burdens
Privacy protections for producers required to register with state agencies
Recognition of diverse business structures — sole proprietors, LLCs, and family operations
Consistent, fair treatment across state lines as interstate commerce cases evolve
How NCFA engages
Explore cottage food law in every state.
NCFA is building a member-accessible state-by-state legislative tracker so you can see exactly what the law looks like in your state, what's changing, and what you can do about it. Members will receive email alerts when significant developments occur in their state.
Explore the State-by-State Tracker →Advocacy is only as powerful as the people behind it.
The more members NCFA has, the louder our voice becomes.
If you believe in the right to build a business from your home kitchen, the most impactful thing you can do is become a member.
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