Kaitlin Moore, Foods, Nutrition, and Health Agent
Selling your locally grown or home-prepared foods might be easier than you think!
If you are interested in participating in your local Farmers Market, you can sell the following, without a license, directly to the end-consumer:
- Fresh, uncut fruits and vegetables
- Dried or freeze-dried uncut fruits and vegetables NOT heat treated before drying or freeze-drying
- Frozen, uncut fruits and vegetables NOT heat treated before freezing
- Fruit leathers
- Herbs
- Nuts and nut butters, including roasted or smoked nuts
- Intact salad greens, not cut beyond normal harvesting
- Spices
- Loose leaf or bagged tea
- Honey
- Eggs, ungraded
- Baked goods that do not require temperature control for safety such as cookies, cakes, breads, cinnamon rolls, fruits pies or fruit cobblers. Icings and frostings must be over 65% sugar by weight
- Chocolate dipped products that do not require temperature control for safety such as chocolate dipped pretzels, strawberries, nuts, etc.
- Dough, refrigerated, frozen or freeze-dried
- Dry baking mixes such as cookie mix or brownie mix
- Dry snacks seasoned with oil and spices such as dry pretzels mixed with oil and spices
- Grain products such as home-ground flour, cornmeal, intact grain, dehydrated sourdough starter
- Fruit jams and jellies
- Canned fruit products that are naturally high in acid such as canned applesauce, most canned fruits, and canned pie filling
- Soda/pop-based jelly
- Candy and fudge
- Freeze-dried candy
- Lard and tallow
- Vanilla extract
- Herb-flavored or infused vinegar such as commercial vinegar poured over fresh tarragon, fresh garlic, fresh basil, etc.
- Homemade dried pasta such as dried egg noodles
This may not be an exhaustive list. These guidelines apply to those wanting to sell their product directly to the end-consumer only. These guidelines do not apply to those wanting to sell their product to another business such as a grocery store, a restaurant, a school, etc.
Please reach out to your local extension office for a free copy of the most recent edition of the publication titled Foods Sold Directly to Consumers in Kansas: Regulations and Food Safety Best Practices. This publication is also commonly referred to as ‘The Farmers Market Guide.’ This publication is updated every January so please ensure you are using the most up-to-date version!
Questions about food sales regulations or food safety can be directed to Kaitlin Moore, Nutrition, Food Safety & Health Agent at 785-243-8185 or kaitlinmoore@ksu.edu.
