The Forrager Podcast for Cottage Food Businesses

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The Forrager Podcast for Cottage Food Businesses episodes

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
April 08, 2025 Davia Delgado with Raven Cakes Bakery
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
1 hr
March 25, 2025 Elena-Maria Hert with European Baked Delights
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
55 min
March 11, 2025 Allyson Grant with The Better Baker Club
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
1 hr
February 25, 2025 Rachel Laukala with Cakepops by Rachel
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
1 hr
February 11, 2025 Meggen Wilson with Pine & Palm Kitchen
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
1 hr
January 28, 2025 Matt Rosen with Sergeant Shortbread
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
1 hr
January 14, 2025 Delaney Peters with Delaney’s Sourdough
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
1 hr
December 31, 2024 Maci Reed with Bake-a-Reed
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
59 min
December 17, 2024 Denise Golia with Dee’s Little Sweets
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
54 min

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