Wyoming Cottage Food Law (2026): Rules, Limits and How to Start
Do you need a license to sell homemade food in Wyoming?
Wyoming runs a genuine food-freedom law: homemade food and drink sold under the Wyoming Food Freedom Act is exempt from state licensing, permitting, inspection, packaging and labeling requirements, with no dollar sales cap in the ordinary sense. The only ceiling is a producer-level limit of 250,000 individual products or $250,000 in gross revenue annually. You must also tell the buyer the product is not certified, labeled, licensed, packaged, regulated or inspected.
Wyoming keeps the path to selling short. There is no state permit and no annual sales cap, so foods like homemade food and drink products broadly, sold for an informed end consumer's home consumption can go to market once your label carries what the state asks for. The rules below are the whole picture.
Wyoming sets no dollar limit on cottage food sales, so the ceiling on your growth is your own kitchen and time rather than a statutory cap. The other rules that matter, the label, the allowed foods and where you can sell, are in the tables below.
The parts new Wyoming sellers most often get wrong are the exact label disclosure wording. Each one has its own row below, with the official source beside it.
How much can you sell? The Wyoming sales cap
The annual sales limit for a Wyoming cottage food operation.
| Item | Wyoming rule |
|---|---|
| Annual sales cap | No annual dollar cap in Wyoming |
| How it works | This is a food-freedom style law: rather than restricting which foods qualify by dollar volume, it defines who counts as an exempt 'producer' by a production/revenue ceiling. Treat the effective operating cap as $250,000 in gross annual revenue or 250,000 units, not as 'no cap' in the way Tennessee's law has no cap at all. |
What foods can you sell in Wyoming?
Allowed and prohibited categories under current Wyoming law.
| Allowed (examples) | Prohibited |
|---|---|
| Homemade food and drink products broadly, sold for an informed end consumer's home consumption; Non-potentially-hazardous homemade food and dairy sold at a retail location or grocery store, with a required label statement. | Not fully enumerated in the sources consulted. The Act is structured as a broad exemption rather than an allowed-foods list and this research could not confirm a definitive prohibited-foods list. |
These lists follow Wyoming Department of Agriculture's published guidance. Confirm your own product against Wyoming Department of Agriculture before you commit to a batch.
Wyoming cottage food label requirements
Every package you sell needs a label with the elements below in legible print.
- Required only for non-potentially-hazardous homemade food and dairy sold at a retail location or grocery store, per Wyoming Department of Agriculture guidance
- For direct farmers market, farm, ranch or home sales, oral or posted notice satisfies the Act's consumer-notification requirement instead of a product label
Wyoming requires this disclosure statement, word for word:
This food was made in a home kitchen, is not regulated or inspected and may contain allergens.
Reproduced from Wyoming's cottage food labeling requirements. Confirm the current wording with Wyoming Department of Agriculture before you print a run of labels.
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Where can you sell in Wyoming?
The venues and channels Wyoming cottage food operators may use.
| Channel | Allowed in Wyoming? |
|---|---|
| Producer's home | Yes |
| Farm or ranch | Yes |
| Farmers markets | Yes |
| Retail locations and grocery stores | With conditions. Only for non-potentially-hazardous homemade food and dairy, with the required label statement. |
| Online sales or shipping | Not confirmed. Not clearly addressed in the sources consulted. |
Registration, training and inspection
Registration and permits. No registration, permit or license is required under the Wyoming Food Freedom Act.
Food safety training. No food safety training is required under the Act.
Kitchen inspection. No home-kitchen inspection is required. The department cannot impose an inspection standard more stringent than the corresponding USDA standard for Act-covered products.
The fees a Wyoming cottage food seller can expect.
| Item | Cost |
|---|---|
| Wyoming Food Freedom Act home food/drink sales | No state fee |
