The Homegrown Vendor Blog

Soap is not food, so no cottage food permit applies. See who regulates your bars, a cold process batch at $1.61 to $2.39 a bar, and the $7 middle price of 54 Homegrown soap listings.

Transfer your cottage food business to a family member or partner in 4-8 weeks. Recipes, customers, permits, and systems.

Build a local vendor community that shares customers, splits costs, and cross-promotes products. 3-10 non-competing vendors helping each other sell more.

The best farm stand apps for ordering, payments, and management. Homegrown for pre-orders, Square for cards, Google Business Profile for visibility.

A 3.5-inch seedling costs about $1.75 to grow and sells for $3-5 each. No food license needed. Learn which plants sell best, timing, and display tips.

Raw milk laws vary wildly by state. Learn which states allow direct sales, which require herd shares, and which prohibit raw milk entirely.

Beeswax cost about $6 to $20 a pound on October 12, 2026. Here is what wraps, lip balm and candles cost to make, what they sell for, and the labels and insurance a booth needs.

Herbal salves are cosmetics, not food. Which words make a salve a drug, what the FDA label needs, a $3 to $4 cost per 2 ounce tin, and what 10 small shops charge.

Fermented vegetables are allowed in many states if properly acidified. Learn which states allow them, production process, and pricing.