The Forrager Podcast for Cottage Food Businesses

By David CrabillBusiness Entrepreneurship Education Arts How To Food

The Forrager Podcast for Cottage Food Businesses episodes

May 26 Nurse Turned Jelly Maker — 50+ Flavors, 10 Stores, All From Her Home Kitchen
Halei Musil of Crescent, OK shares how her unique award-winning products led her to a surprising cottage food business journey that has enabled her to become an integral part of her local community
Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/168
1 hr 4 min
May 12 From Empty Nester to Cookie Business Explosion: How Tammy Brennan Transformed Her Life
Tammy Brennan of Vancouver, WA shares how she started a cottage food business as an empty nester and grew it into a huge success, with hour-long lines at markets and over 150k followers on Instagram
Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/167
1 hr 41 min
April 28 One Year of Slow Sales — Then Everything Changed
Yanhui Chen of Virginia Beach, VA shares how she transitioned from a cottage food business to a food truck and built a thriving business by constantly trying new things until she found what worked
Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/166
59 min
April 14 From Laid Off to $55K: The Cottage Food Business Success of Kathleen & Drew
Kathleen & Drew Meyer of Boerne, TX share how they reached over $55k in sales within their first year in business by staying adaptable, implementing efficient business systems, and leveraging AI
Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/165
1 hr 18 min
March 31 From Math Teacher to Cake Pop Mogul: Amy Mucha’s Multi-Million Dollar Journey
Amy Mucha of Kent, OH shares how she massively scaled her home bakery and now sells over 100,000 cake pops per year, and then created a cake pop supplies business that is revolutionizing the industry
Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/164
1 hr 33 min
March 17 Katrina Bland with Sweet Benefits
Katrina Bland of Catonsville, MD shares how she boosted her small cottage food business by investing in professional coaching, focusing on ecommerce, and landing large corporate orders
Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/163
1 hr
March 03 Beth Ford with Joe’s Bakery – Baton Rouge
Beth Ford of Baton Rouge, LA shares how she found new purpose, passion, and peace in life by opening a cottage food bakery and growing it until she could quit her job and focus on the bakery full-time
Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/162
57 min
February 17 Lauren “Lolly” Anderson with Lolly’s Home Kitchen
Lolly Anderson of Sioux Falls, SD shares how cookies literally changed her life and led her to build a successful cottage food bakery and a digital product business that has done over $1M in sales
Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/161
58 min
February 03 Brandy Nelson with Wild Currant Alaska
Brandy Nelson of Soldotna, AK shares how she built a strong customer base by selling very unique and healthy products, and the challenges she needs to consider to continue scaling her business further
Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/160
1 hr
January 20 Nicole Bendig-Lamb with Snarky Sweet Cake Chick
Nicole Bendig-Lamb of Arvada, CO shares how she overcame self-doubt and became not just a successful cottage food entrepreneur, but also a recognized influencer, author, speaker, and business coach
Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/159
1 hr

About The Forrager Podcast for Cottage Food Businesses

From the publisher's feed

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…