Wyoming's Food Freedom Act takes a different approach than most states: it's permissive by default. Almost any food or drink that isn't mammalian meat is allowed — including perishables and refrigerated items other states prohibit. Here's the complete open, restricted, and prohibited list for Wyoming home food sellers.
Every food category falls into one of three buckets under the Food Freedom Act. Most Wyoming home foods are Open — they can be sold freely. A smaller set is Restricted with specific conditions. Only one category is outright Prohibited.
Most state cottage food laws work by approved list — a narrow catalog of non-perishable items (jams, cookies, dry mixes) that sellers are allowed to produce, with everything else implicitly prohibited. Wyoming reverses that logic. The Food Freedom Act starts from the premise that producers and informed end consumers can transact freely, and then carves out a few narrow exceptions driven mostly by federal law.
The other major boundary is federal. Wyoming cannot override USDA meat inspection requirements, so mammalian meat products — whether made from store-bought beef or a rancher's own cattle — fall outside the Act. The only meat exception is poultry under USDA's 1,000-bird small producer exemption, and farm-raised fish (except catfish, which USDA also regulates). Wild game is separately prohibited by state fish-and-game law.
Everything else — the full spectrum of artisan food that most makers actually want to produce — is fair game. Baked goods, canned preserves, hot sauces, chocolates, cheese, kombucha, prepared meals, even raw milk are all allowed under the Act, subject to the channel restrictions described above and the $250,000 annual revenue cap.
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