The Forrager Podcast for Cottage Food Businesses

The Forrager Podcast for Cottage Food Businesses

Learn how to start a food business from your home kitchen by hearing stories from cottage food entrepreneurs about how they grew their businesses from the ground up. Does everyone ask for your recipes, or say "You should sell that"? Have you dreamed of starting a brick-and-mortar bakery, or simply want a fun hobby that brings in some extra dough? On this podcast, David interviews a wide range of entrepreneurs across America who legally sell their homemade food via their state's cottage food law. Each episode reveals strategies for marketing and selling your food products successfully from home, online, at farmers markets/events, and in stores. Learn what steps you should (or shouldn't) take, and get your cottage food business off to the right start!

Episodes

Chris Martin with bakernobakery

April 22, 2025 • 58 mins
Chris Martin of Charlottesville, VA shares how she used her experience working at 3-star Michelin restaurants to build a successful cottage food bakery, and then reinvented it despite its popularity

Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/139

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Davia Delgado with Raven Cakes Bakery

April 8, 2025 • 59 mins
Davia Delgado of Trenton, NJ has experienced incredibly fast growth in her cottage food bakery, and shares how she achieved many $2k and $3k sales days within her first year of business

Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/138

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Elena-Maria Hert with European Baked Delights

March 25, 2025 • 54 mins
Elena-Maria Hert of Billings, MT shares how she persisted to create a successful cottage food bakery, despite struggling to acquire customers, source ingredients, and achieve work/life balance

Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/137

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Allyson Grant with The Better Baker Club

March 11, 2025 • 59 mins
Allyson Grant of Baldwin City, KS shares her wild journey from starting a home bakery to growing a chain of cupcake stores, appearing on the Food Network, and coaching cottage food entrepreneurs

Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/136

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Rachel Laukala with Cakepops by Rachel

February 25, 2025 • 59 mins
Rachel Laukala of Ravensdale, WA shares how she built a very successful cottage food bakery selling only cake pops, amassed over 100k followers on Instagram, and started an online cake pop school

Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/135

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Meggen Wilson with Pine & Palm Kitchen

February 11, 2025 • 59 mins
Meggen Wilson of Whitefish, MT shares how she converted her cottage food business into an ecommerce brand, and covers many topics including licensing, branding, copacking, ecommerce, SEO, email & more

Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/134

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Matt Rosen with Sergeant Shortbread

January 28, 2025 • 59 mins
Matt Rosen of Eden Prairie, MN shares his unlikely journey from non-baker to bakery owner, including a major rebrand, a fortuitous commercial facility, and a business decision that tripled his sales

Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/133

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Delaney Peters with Delaney’s Sourdough

January 14, 2025 • 59 mins
Delaney Peters of Wasilla, AK shares how her cottage food bakery became a massive success within its first year, despite having modest business ambitions and also being a stay-at-home mom of an infant

Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/132

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Maci Reed with Bake-a-Reed

December 31, 2024 • 58 mins
Maci Reed of Dover, NH shares how she rapidly built a successful cottage food bakery by focusing on helping others and fostering community, and eventually sold over 1,000 baked goods in a single day

Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/131

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Denise Golia with Dee’s Little Sweets

December 17, 2024 • 53 mins
Denise Golia of North Providence, RI shares how she started a very successful bakery by niching way down, despite being limited by a personal injury and not being able to start from her home kitchen

Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/130

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Jondell Lafont-Garcia with Fluff Marshmallow Co.

December 3, 2024 • 59 mins
Jondell Lafont-Garcia of Pflugerville, TX is one of the foremost experts in the homemade marshmallow trend and shares how she built her cottage food business despite facing a major personal challenge

Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/129

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Wynter Hosier with Etta’s Gooey Goodies

November 19, 2024 • 59 mins
Wynter Hosier of Greentown, IN shares how she built her cottage food bakery into a successful storefront by persevering and giving back, despite facing many unexpected twists and turns along the way

Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/128

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Joan Eppehimer & Jason Madison with Aunt Joan’s Pearl City Popcorn

November 5, 2024 • 59 mins
Joan Eppehimer of Jamestown, NY shares how she raised thousands of dollars for charity with a cottage food business, and (with the help of her nephew Jason) rebranded her business to boost sales

Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/127

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Kristi Otto with One More Bite Organic Desserts

October 22, 2024 • 59 mins
Kristi Otto of Fort Myers, FL shares how she leveraged her extensive food industry experience to succeed with her cottage food bakery, despite her community not resonating with her products initially

Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/126

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Nicole DiMarco with All About The Freeze

October 8, 2024 • 59 mins
Nicole DiMarco of West Deptford, NJ shares how she took the leap with a new product, and leveraged her sales, retail, and social media experience to quickly start a successful cottage food business

Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/125

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Steph Uittenbogaard with Fifi’s Patisseries

September 24, 2024 • 54 mins
Steph Uittenbogaard of Loveland, CO never thought she'd run her own home bakery, and she shares her atypical business journey, including both the triumphs and challenges that she's faced along the way

Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/124

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Jenn Bowersock with Jenn’s Backstube

September 10, 2024 • 46 mins
Jenn Bowersock of Sidney, OH runs an authentic German bakery from her home, and shares how she went from struggling as an entrepreneur to experiencing rapid success by finding product/market fit

Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/123

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Alexis Kron with Bakednaz

August 27, 2024 • 59 mins
Alexis Kron of Bullhead City, AZ shares how she built a successful cottage food bakery selling luxury custom cakes, despite overcoming personal challenges and facing resistance from her community

Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/122

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Tyler & Angie Worthey with Worthey Peppers

August 13, 2024 • 59 mins
Tyler Worthey of Neoga, IL shares how he built a very successful cottage food business during high school, and how he and his mom Angie now work together as a mother/son team to take it to new heights

Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/121

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Ka’Terra Dettbarn with Sweet Addiction

July 30, 2024 • 48 mins
Ka’Terra Dettbarn of Ocean City, MD endured lots of trial and error when starting a cottage bakery with her sister, but by persisting and listening for guidance, they transformed it into a success

Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/120

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