We are excited to announce the Cottage Food Training for Nebraska is up and available. The Nebraska Department of Ag has placed it on their website and people are starting to sign up for it.
Here is some valuable information about the class from Forrager.com:
- Nebraska passed a bill (LB 304) in 2019 which greatly expanded their cottage food law. Before that, homemade food could only be sold at farmers markets.
- Producers can sell any type of non-perishable food at farmers markets, public events, from home, and online to anyone in the state of Nebraska. For sales outside of farmers markets, producers must complete a food safety course, as well as online registration. This is where our course comes in—it fulfills the requirements for registration. This course is written specifically for Nebraska and our regulations, but producers in other states could possibly take this course also to fulfill their requirements.
- This law does not allow indirect sales (wholesale, retail stores, etc.), but there is no sales limit and it is very easy and inexpensive to start using the law.
If you receive any questions in regards to the Cottage Food training, feel free to contact anyone of the Food Safety Team members or Cindy Brison at cbrison1@unl.edu or at (402)444-7872.