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No. Homemade food produced and sold in compliance with the Act is exempt from state licensure, permitting, inspection, packaging, and labeling requirements. There is no registration, permit, or kitchen inspection, and no sampling license is needed at a farmers market. One catch: cooking food on site at a market makes you a temporary food stand that does need a license; the exemption covers food prepared in your home kitchen.
None. The statute imposes no training or certification requirement of any kind.
The broadest in the nation: nearly any homemade food or drink, including potentially hazardous (TCS) foods such as cream-filled baked goods, refrigerated and frozen items, pickles, home-canned goods, raw milk and raw milk products, eggs (clean, refrigerated, carton labeled with name, address, pack date, 'ungraded' and 'keep refrigerated'), poultry under the federal 1,000-bird exemption (your own birds, in-state only), domestic rabbit meat, and farm-raised fish raised under Title 23 (catfish excluded). Meat can also be obtained through written animal share contracts.
Uninspected red meat (beef, pork, lamb, goat) cut and sold as meat; it must come from a state or federally inspected plant. A 2025 amendment created a trigger provision for producer-slaughtered meat, but it only activates if the governor certifies that federal law allows uninspected direct-to-consumer meat sales, which has not happened, so it is not in effect. Wild game and wild-caught fish cannot be sold, and homemade food cannot be served or used as an ingredient in restaurants (raw unprocessed produce excepted).
Only in Wyoming, direct from producer to informed end consumer: farmers markets, farms, ranches, the producer's home or office, or any location the producer and consumer agree to, including delivery. Internet sales are allowed with delivery within Wyoming only; no interstate shipping. A written 'designated agent' (including consignment markets and food freedom stores) may market, transport, store, and deliver products for you. Shelf stable foods, eggs, and dairy may also be sold by third-party retailers such as grocery stores with required signage and shelf separation; other TCS foods may only be sold by the producer or their designated agent.
Annual sales cap: $250,000 gross revenue per year and 250,000 individual items per year (the highest cap of any state food freedom or cottage food law); exceed either and you no longer qualify as a producer under the Act.
No mandatory label format for direct sales, but the producer must inform the end consumer that the product is not certified, licensed, regulated, or inspected; failing to inform forfeits the exemption entirely. Retail spaces selling homemade food must post a not-inspected sign, and shelf stable food and dairy sold at retail cannot share a shelf with inspected food and must be prominently labeled: 'this food was made in a home kitchen, is not regulated or inspected and may contain allergens.'
Food for domestic home consumption is exempt from Wyoming sales tax, so typical jarred, baked, and packaged goods sold to take home are not taxed, and local option taxes follow the same base. Prepared food sold ready to eat is taxable at the 4 percent state rate plus local taxes, and non-food craft items are taxable, so many vendors still need a Wyoming sales tax license for their taxable products.
The Act exempts compliant producers from state licensure statewide, and the Department of Agriculture cannot adopt standards stricter than USDA standards. Farmers markets as venues remain subject to inspection, and market organizers and municipalities can still impose vendor fees, booth rules, and general business requirements.
The Act has no penalty section of its own. The practical penalty is losing the exemption: operate outside the Act (or fail to inform consumers) and you are treated as an unlicensed food business under standard Wyoming food safety law, and you remain civilly liable if your food makes someone sick.
Selling non-food crafts too? See the Wyoming craft fair permit and sales tax guide.
Yes, under Wyoming Food Freedom Act, W.S. 11-49-101 through 11-49-104 (enacted 2015, amended 2017, 2020, 2021, 2023, and 2025). No. Homemade food produced and sold in compliance with the Act is exempt from state licensure, permitting, inspection, packaging, and labeling requirements. There is no registration, permit, or kitchen inspection, and no sampling license is needed at a farmers market. One catch: cooking food on site at a market makes you a temporary food stand that does need a license; the exemption covers food prepared in your home kitchen.
The broadest in the nation: nearly any homemade food or drink, including potentially hazardous (TCS) foods such as cream-filled baked goods, refrigerated and frozen items, pickles, home-canned goods, raw milk and raw milk products, eggs (clean, refrigerated, carton labeled with name, address, pack date, 'ungraded' and 'keep refrigerated'), poultry under the federal 1,000-bird exemption (your own birds, in-state only), domestic rabbit meat, and farm-raised fish raised under Title 23 (catfish excluded). Meat can also be obtained through written animal share contracts. Uninspected red meat (beef, pork, lamb, goat) cut and sold as meat; it must come from a state or federally inspected plant. A 2025 amendment created a trigger provision for producer-slaughtered meat, but it only activates if the governor certifies that federal law allows uninspected direct-to-consumer meat sales, which has not happened, so it is not in effect. Wild game and wild-caught fish cannot be sold, and homemade food cannot be served or used as an ingredient in restaurants (raw unprocessed produce excepted).
Yes: $250,000 gross revenue per year and 250,000 individual items per year (the highest cap of any state food freedom or cottage food law); exceed either and you no longer qualify as a producer under the Act.
Only in Wyoming, direct from producer to informed end consumer: farmers markets, farms, ranches, the producer's home or office, or any location the producer and consumer agree to, including delivery. Internet sales are allowed with delivery within Wyoming only; no interstate shipping. A written 'designated agent' (including consignment markets and food freedom stores) may market, transport, store, and deliver products for you. Shelf stable foods, eggs, and dairy may also be sold by third-party retailers such as grocery stores with required signage and shelf separation; other TCS foods may only be sold by the producer or their designated agent.
No mandatory label format for direct sales, but the producer must inform the end consumer that the product is not certified, licensed, regulated, or inspected; failing to inform forfeits the exemption entirely. Retail spaces selling homemade food must post a not-inspected sign, and shelf stable food and dairy sold at retail cannot share a shelf with inspected food and must be prominently labeled: 'this food was made in a home kitchen, is not regulated or inspected and may contain allergens.'
Food for domestic home consumption is exempt from Wyoming sales tax, so typical jarred, baked, and packaged goods sold to take home are not taxed, and local option taxes follow the same base. Prepared food sold ready to eat is taxable at the 4 percent state rate plus local taxes, and non-food craft items are taxable, so many vendors still need a Wyoming sales tax license for their taxable products.
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