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What Wyoming actually decides
The Wyoming Food Freedom Act exempts compliant homemade food from state licensure, permitting, inspection, packaging and labelling requirements. Agency assistance, consultation or inspection survives only at your own request. No sampling licence is required to hand out samples, which is a small thing that matters at a market.
The cap is the part worth reading carefully, because there are two and they hide inside the definition of "producer". No more than 250,000 individual food or drink products a year, and no more than $250,000 in gross revenue a year from them. A high-volume, low-price product can hit the unit ceiling well before the dollar one.
Since July 2023, third-party vendors including retail shops and grocery stores may sell eggs, dairy and non-potentially hazardous homemade food at their own retail location, and designated agents may facilitate your transactions. That is a wide channel list for an exemption-style law, and it is the main reason Wyoming reads differently from its neighbours.
The product boundary is the definition rather than a list: any homemade food or drink needing no time or temperature control for safety. Meat is the firm exclusion, since beef, pork, lamb and goat must be slaughtered, processed and labelled in a state or federally inspected plant, and wild game may not be sold at all under separate Wyoming law.
The short version
What you can sell in Wyoming
Straight from the official record. Read these as categories rather than a menu, because one recipe can cross the line on its own: a filling that needs refrigeration, a pH that needs testing, or a process that needs an authority to sign it off.
- Any homemade food or drink that needs no time or temperature control for safety. The definition, not a list, is the boundary
- Jams, uncut fruits and vegetables, and pickled vegetables
- Hard candies and fudge
- Nut mixes, granola and popcorn
- Coffee beans
- Dry soup mixes, other than meat based
- Baked goods without dairy or meat frosting or filling, or any other frosting or filling that needs temperature control
- Raw milk and products made from raw milk, plus eggs and dairy products
- Poultry and poultry products, where you slaughter no more than 1,000 of your own birds in a calendar year, buy or sell no poultry other than your own, and the product is not adulterated or misbranded
- Domestic rabbit meat, and farm raised fish other than catfish
- Live animals, and portions of live animals sold before slaughter for future delivery
- Potentially hazardous homemade food, but sold only by you or a designated agent, never by a third-party retailer
What is outside the rule
If your product is on this list, the answer is not "ask nicely". It is a different licence, a different kitchen, or both.
- Meat products generally. Beef, pork, lamb and goat are slaughtered, processed and labelled in a Wyoming state or federally inspected meat plant
- Wild game, animals, birds or fish, which Wyoming law prohibits selling or bartering
- Catfish, which is amenable to the federal Meat Inspection Act
- Homemade or uninspected food served in, or used as an ingredient by, a commercial food establishment, except raw unprocessed fruits and vegetables, eggs and dairy products
- Food prepared or finished on site at a farmers market, which makes it a temporary food stand needing a licence. Cooking a home-prepared product and handing out samples is the only exception
- Anything sold outside Wyoming or involving interstate commerce
- Products from an out-of-state producer sold in Wyoming
Where you are allowed to sell it
The researched record lists direct sales, farmers markets, online orders, delivery, retail or wholesale.
One channel being open does not open the rest. Shipping, delivery and wholesale each turn on the product and where it is going, so check the route you actually plan to use.
