The Forrager Podcast for Cottage Food Businesses

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The Forrager Podcast for Cottage Food Businesses episodes

August 26, 2025 Lauri Lee & Bob Stafford with Lauri Lee’s
Lauri Lee & Bob Stafford of Surprise, AZ share the strategies they’ve used to scale their business by becoming a major presence at markets, adding wholesale accounts, switching to a copacker, and more
Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/148
1 hr
August 12, 2025 Soralla Gonzalez with Delicious Healthy Bakes
Soralla Gonzalez of Tampa Bay, FL shares how she has overcome struggles to find customers by being resilient, implementing marketing strategies, failing fast, and staying focused on her true passion
Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/147
1 hr
July 29, 2025 Stacey Kimball with Bluebird Confections
Stacey Kimball of Caldwell, ID shares how she went from cottage food to commercial kitchen to her own storefront by building relationships with her community and focusing on slow and consistent growth
Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/146
1 hr
July 15, 2025 Amanda Sharp with The Little Bakery
Amanda Sharp of McCalla, AL shares how she fulfilled her lifelong dream of building a successful bakery, despite overcoming health challenges and facing a curveball that almost wiped out her sales
Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/145
59 min
July 01, 2025 Annie Wang with Little Moon Bakehouse
Annie Wang of Oakland, CA shares how she turned multiple passions into a very successful hyper-niched and eco-friendly bakery by starting small, scaling up, and completing a massive rebrand
Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/144
58 min
June 17, 2025 Ana Delgado with Apple & Jars
Ana Delgado of Wingdale, NY shares her incredible cottage food business journey that includes starting over twice, overcoming a midlife crisis, and dealing with burnout on her unlikely path to success
Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/143
1 hr
June 03, 2025 Georgi DeCosta with Georgi’s Goodies
Georgi DeCosta of Kaneohe, HI shares how she used baking to help overcome depression, and turned her baking therapy into a legitimate cottage food business that has given her a new purpose in life
Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/142
55 min
May 20, 2025 Rita Magalde with Sheer Ambrosia
Rita Magalde runs Sheer Ambrosia in Salt Lake City, UT and shares her roller coaster baking business journey of 17 years that includes big risks, life changes, surprises, failures and successes
Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/141
1 hr
May 06, 2025 Michelle Chesser with Home Sweet Home Bakery
Michelle Chesser of Millersville, MO started her home bakery 16 years ago from humble beginnings and built it into a "monster" that changed her family's life and led her to become an online influencer
Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/140
1 hr
April 22, 2025 Chris Martin with bakernobakery
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
59 min

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