Guide
Wyoming cottage food law for home bakers
What a home baker in Wyoming needs before the first sale: Wyoming Food Freedom Act, the sales cap, online orders, delivery, and the exact label line, each with its source.
This is a plain-language summary, not legal advice. Laws change; check the linked source before you sell. Last reviewed September 25, 2026.
The short version
Wyoming's Food Freedom Act is one of the most open cottage food laws in the country: a compliant sale needs no state license, no permit, no fee, no inspection and, for most sales, no printed label at all. There is no application to file with the state.
The trade-off is a size ceiling rather than a paperwork one: you can produce up to 250,000 individual food or drink items and take in up to $250,000 in gross revenue a year before the exemption stops covering you. Every sale also has to happen inside Wyoming; the Act explicitly rules out interstate commerce.
You can take orders online, and the state's own guidance says so directly, but delivery has to land inside Wyoming. Selling through someone else's retail shop or grocery store is allowed only for non-potentially-hazardous food, eggs and dairy, with a fixed disclosure sentence and a rule against sharing a shelf with licensed products; anything else you make has to move through you or a person you name in writing.
Registering
The rule is administered by Wyoming Department of Agriculture; the guide reads Wyo. Stat. §§ 11-49-101 through 11-49-104 (Marketing Homemade Foods, the Wyoming Food Freedom Act), originally enacted 2015 (HB0056, effective March 3, 2015), amended 2017 (ch. 111) and 2020 (ch. 69), current text as republished by the Wyoming Department of Agriculture.
There is nothing to register, file or pay for. The only ongoing duty is telling each buyer, however you like, that the food is not certified, licensed, packaged, regulated or inspected.
Where you can sell, and whether online counts
The statute lists the allowed venues broadly, including farmers markets, your home, a third party's retail or grocery shelf for the three named food types, and any other spot you and the buyer agree to, and separately defines delivery to include a named agent dropping the food off. The Department's own FAQ confirms internet ordering is fine as long as delivery stays inside Wyoming; the Act itself never uses the word "shipping," so whether a mailed or courier-shipped package (rather than a hand delivery) satisfies the same rule is marked not addressed rather than assumed allowed.
What goes on the label
Most sales carry no printed label requirement at all under this Act, only a spoken or written notice that the food is not inspected. The one exception is a sale through a retail store or grocery store shelf, which needs the exact sentence the law sets out and cannot sit next to food from a licensed maker.
A direct sale at a farmers market, your home, or an agreed delivery spot carries no printed label the Act requires; you only have to tell the buyer, in your own words, that the food is not certified, labeled, licensed, packaged, regulated or inspected. The one fixed sentence in the Act applies only once the food sits on a shelf at a retail store or grocery store: "this food was made in a home kitchen, is not regulated or inspected and may contain allergens," and that food may not share a shelf with food from a licensed establishment.
What you can bake and sell
The food list splits into non-potentially-hazardous items (which can reach a retail shelf through a third party) and potentially hazardous items like eggs, dairy, quiches or cooked vegetables (which mostly cannot, eggs and dairy again excepted). Most meat is off the table outright unless it goes through a licensed plant, with narrow, specific carve-outs for poultry you raise yourself, rabbit, certain farm-raised fish, and meat delivered through an animal-share arrangement.
- Allowed: Homemade food and drink products you grow, harvest, prepare or process on your own property, including non-potentially-hazardous items such as jams, uncut fruits and vegetables, pickled vegetables, hard candies, fudge, nut mixes, granola, meat-free dry soup mixes, coffee beans, popcorn and baked goods without a dairy or meat frosting or filling. Eggs, dairy products and other potentially hazardous homemade food (such as quiches, pizzas, frozen dough or cooked vegetables and beans) can also be sold, but only by you or your named agent, never through a retail shop or grocery store (eggs and dairy are the one exception allowed at retail). Poultry you raise and slaughter (under 1,000 birds a year), rabbit meat, non-catfish farm-raised fish, live animals, and meat delivered through an animal share each have their own conditions.
- Not allowed: Wild game, and beef, pork, lamb or goat that has not gone through a Wyoming or federally inspected meat plant; catfish; and any homemade or uninspected food served in, sold to, or used as an ingredient by a restaurant or other commercial food establishment (raw, unprocessed produce is the one exception).
The sales cap
Wyoming caps cottage food sales at $250,000 a year, counted as Gross revenue in a year from the sale of your food and drink products, together with a separate cap of 250,000 individual food or drink products produced in the same year.
Work out how much room you have left this year with the cottage food sales cap checker.
Questions people ask
Do I need to register to sell cottage food in Wyoming?
No, Wyoming does not require registration. None. The Act exempts a compliant sale outright from state licensure, permitting, inspection, packaging and labeling requirements; there is no application, filing or registration of any kind. Fee: Not stated. The Act exempts a compliant sale from licensure and permitting altogether, so there is no fee or fee-setting body to name.
Has the cottage food sales cap in Wyoming changed over time?
$250,000 a year from July 1, 2020, counted as Gross revenue in a year from the sale of your food and drink products, together with a separate cap of 250,000 individual food or drink products produced in the same year.
Can I take orders online in Wyoming?
Yes, you can take orders online. You can hand an order over in person or send it anywhere inside the state.
Can I deliver or ship cottage food in Wyoming?
Delivery is allowed. The rule does not address shipping inside the state.
What does my Wyoming cottage food label need to say?
A direct sale at a farmers market, your home, or an agreed delivery spot carries no printed label the Act requires; you only have to tell the buyer, in your own words, that the food is not certified, labeled, licensed, packaged, regulated or inspected. The one fixed sentence in the Act applies only once the food sits on a shelf at a retail store or grocery store: "this food was made in a home kitchen, is not regulated or inspected and may contain allergens," and that food may not share a shelf with food from a licensed establishment.
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