Have you ever imagined turning your homemade baked goods, jams, spice blends or other shelf-stable favorites into a small business?
Thanks to Colorado’s Cottage Food Act, individuals can legally prepare and sell certain foods from their home kitchens, opening the door to entrepreneurship, supplemental income and local food innovation right here in Archuleta County.
Healthy Archuleta is exploring the next round of Cottage Food Certification Training sessions in partnership with the Colorado State University (CSU) Extension agent serving Archuleta County.
This certification is required for anyone who wants to sell cottage foods in Colorado and provides essential guidance on food safety, labeling requirements and state regulations. It’s an important first step for anyone ready to move from idea to action.
Before scheduling the next training, we want to better understand community interest. Whether you’re hoping to launch a new cottage food business, expand an existing home-based product, learn more about Colorado’s regulations or complete the required food safety certification, we invite you to share your interest with us.
Your responses will help us gauge local demand, identify preferred language (English or Spanish), understand prior certification status, and coordinate scheduling with CSU Extension to best serve our community.
If you’re a home baker, gardener, small-scale producer or simply exploring what’s possible, this could be your first step toward bringing a local food product to life. Complete the interest form at https://bit.ly/406hJu7.
We’ll gather responses and follow up with next steps and training details.
For more information, please contact Healthy Archuleta at fsfearchuleta@gmail.com. And while you’re exploring local food opportunities, don’t forget to register for the 2026 Archuleta Food Summit on April 18 at www.foodcoalition4archuleta.org/archuleta-food-summit.html.
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