Farmer’s markets have become increasingly popular in recent years, and they’re a great way to test a new product and gather customer feedback. On the downside, it can be difficult to turn a profit at a farmer’s market, and selling at one typically involves a lot of work. Below are some tips and strategies that […]
How to Start A Food Business, Part 2: Selling Your Product
So, you’ve done everything you need to do to get up and running with your new cottage food business. You’ve familiarized yourself with the legal codes; located a manufacturing facility; and put some thought into your packaging. Now it’s time to get down to the nitty-gritty: actually pricing, selling, and shipping your products. Below are […]
Selling Food From Home: 5 Steps to Get Started
In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, more and more people are deciding to pursue their passions instead of the traditional 9 to 5 grind. If you’re determined to spend your days shipping off jars of jam instead of filling out spreadsheets, you may be wondering how to start selling food from home—and finding yourself […]
Top 7 Insanely Awesome Packaging Designs
Now more than ever, packaging matters. For any given product, consumers are faced with dozens of choices that are all extremely similar to one another (remember the last time you tried to pick out a tube of toothpaste?) As a result, it’s packaging that ends up doing most of the selling—and a clever, eye-catching design […]
Top 7 Examples of Eco Packaging
As Seattle became the first city in the US to ban plastic straws this summer, the concern over single use plastics and non-biodegradable packaging is growing fast. Social media feeds are inundated with scenes of marine animals struggling through debris, and islands made up of trash are swirling in the oceans. It’s pretty hard to […]
Why do we need food labels anyway?
Food labels are important, more than for providing us with some in-store entertainment while standing at the checkout line. They help us determine that our foods contain what they say they do, and don’t contain the stuff that we don’t want. Seems pretty basic to us now, but back in the day the food industry […]