As of October 1st 2015 Montana has a new Cottage Food Bill that gives entrepreneurs the ability to prepare low-risk food in their home kitchen and then sell those products directly to consumers without having to jump through so many legal hoops. The Missoulian wrote a nice article about this, featuring Moonlight Kitchens and Rebecca Peart of Crave Catering & Cakes, one of our clients.

Here is the text of the Department of Public Health & Human Services’s guidelines (click the image to go to their website):