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 and potentially hazardous foods per the statutory definition: foods requiring refrigeration, dairy products, quiches, pizzas, frozen doughs, cooked vegetables and beans 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 foods per the statutory list: jams, uncut fruits and vegetables, pickled vegetables, hard candies, fudge, nut mixes, granola, dry soup mixes excluding meat-based, coffee beans, popcorn and baked goods without dairy, meat or other hazardous frosting or filling; Potentially hazardous foods per the statutory definition: foods requiring refrigeration, dairy products, quiches, pizzas, frozen doughs, cooked vegetables and beans; Raw milk and products made from raw milk; Poultry and poultry products, where the producer slaughters fewer than 1,000 birds a calendar year, raises them all itself and sells only within Wyoming; Domestic rabbit meat; Farm-raised fish other than catfish; Live animals and portions of live animals sold before slaughter for future delivery; Non-potentially-hazardous homemade food and dairy sold at a retail location or grocery store, with the required label statement. | Meat from cattle, sheep, swine or goats, unless slaughtered, processed and labeled in a Wyoming state or federally inspected meat plant; Wild game, wild animals, birds and wild fish (W.S. 23-3-302 prohibits the sale or barter of these); Catfish, which is amenable to the USDA Meat Inspection Act; Any Food Freedom Act product sold or used in a commercial food establishment, except raw unprocessed fruit and vegetables, eggs and dairy products; Food prepared on site at a farmers market, which makes the stand a licensed temporary food establishment (samples excepted). |
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 | Yes. WDA Q&A Q20: "Can a home producer do internet sales under this Act? Yes, but only for delivery within Wyoming." W.S. 11-49-103(c)(iii)-(iv) requires transactions to occur only in Wyoming and not involve interstate commerce |
| Interstate shipping and out-of-state producers selling into Wyoming | No. WDA Q&A Q16 and Q17: transactions under the Act shall only occur in Wyoming and shall not involve interstate commerce |
| Producer's office, or any location the producer and the informed end consumer agree to | Yes. Named in the statutory venue list at W.S. 11-49-103(c)(vi) |
| Inside a commercial food establishment | No. WDA Q&A Q1: sales may not occur within commercial food establishments as defined in W.S. 35-7-110(a)(xxxi) |
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 |
Wondering how Wyoming compares? See what a cottage food license costs in every state, from the no-fee states to the priciest permits.
