Homemade for Sale, Second Edition
John Ivanko
(Author)
Description
Updated and expanded! The authoritative guide to conceiving and launching your own home-based food business - from idea to recipe to final product.
Follow your dream to launch a food business from your home and join the booming movement of food entrepreneurs.
Fully updated and expanded, Homemade for Sale, Second Edition is the authoritative guide to launching a successful food enterprise from your kitchen. It covers everything you need to get cooking for your customers, providing a clear road map to go from ideas and recipes to owning a food business. Contents includes:
- Product development and testing
- Understanding state cottage food and food freedom laws and advocacy
- Independently tested recipes for non-hazardous food products, including frostings
- Marketing and developing your niche
- Step-by-step guides for packaging, labeling, and creating displays
- Structuring and running your business while planning for the future
- Bookkeeping and financial management
- Managing liability, risk, and government regulations
- Avoiding burnout through self-care and time management
- Profiles of successful food entrepreneurs.
More people than ever are demanding real food made with real ingredients by real people, and you have the freedom to earn by starting a food business from home. No capital needed, just good recipes and enthusiasm, plus enough business know-how found in the pages of Homemade for Sale to be a success. Everything else is probably already in your kitchen. Best of all, you can start right now!
AWARDS
- SILVER 2023 Living Now Book Awards: How-To / DIY
Product Details
| Publisher | New Society Publishers |
| Publish Date | December 13, 2022 |
| Pages | 384 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9780865719699 |
| Dimensions | 8.9 X 7.9 X 1.0 inches | 1.6 pounds |
About the Author
Lisa Kivirist is a nationally recognised speaker, writer, instructor, and co-author of 15 books, including award-winning ECOpreneuring, Homemade for Sale, and Farmstead Chef. Lisa teaches the best-selling online Udemy cottage food course. With John D. Ivanko, she runs the solar-powered Inn Serendipity B&B in Wisconsin.
John D. Ivanko is a nationally recognised speaker, writer, instructor, and co-author of 15 books, including award-winning ECOpreneuring, Homemade for Sale, and Farmstead Chef. John is also a photographer and the co-author of six award-winning multicultural children's books. With Lisa Kivirist, he runs the solar-powered Inn Serendipity B&B in Wisconsin.
Reviews
"Having spoken with thousands of cottage food entrepreneurs, I can confirm that this book is exactly what someone needs when starting a cottage food business. I've seen many new entrepreneurs making tasty products with bland profits, and Homemade for Sale correctly focuses on the missing ingredient -- marketing. It will give your new business an edge in a crowded marketplace. Well-researched, loaded with examples, and perfectly tailored to the home cook, this book will point you in the right direction and set you up for success!"
--David Crabill, founder, Forrager.com and The Forrager Podcast
"Kivirist and Ivanko are two of the most important leaders in the cottage food movement and have been instrumental and absolutely indispensable to the movement's rapid progress over the last few years. We are all grateful to have them."
--Erica Smith Ewing, senior attorney, Institute for Justice
"By the time you finish reading Homemade for Sale, you'll be wearing your farmers-market-John / jam-n-jelly-Jane hat in total confidence."
--MaryJane Butters, author, Milk Cow Kitchen, MaryJanesFarm.org
"Lisa and John are leaders in this community and Homemade for Sale is a must-read for anyone considering or already running a cottage food business."
--Mark Josephson, founder and CEO, Castiron
"Homemade For Sale is an inspiring guide for anyone interested in starting a home-based food business. Lisa and John have been through the fire themselves and scoured the cottage food industry to find the best resources to help you get off the ground and succeed. From understanding your state's laws to incorporating your business to choosing the right products customers to market to, they take you step-by-step through everything you should be doing and thinking about. Their profiles on other cottage food entrepreneurs bring everything a little closer to home and might be just the motivation we all need to take part in the movement ourselves."
--Lev Berlin, founder, ReciPal
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