North Dakota cottage food label requirements and Food Freedom checklist
Answer a few plain-English questions about what you make and how you want to sell it. We check it against North Dakota's Cottage Food chapter — including the 2025 changes that allow online, phone, mail, and out-of-state sales — flag anything that isn't allowed, and build you a personalized checklist and a printable food label. One place, no legal jargon.
Free customized label/checklist after walk-through completion
Built from the public North Dakota Century Code and ND Health & Human Services guidance. Not legal advice and not state approval — rules can change, so verify final requirements with ND Health & Human Services before selling.
Free permit walk-throughSee right away if a choice would block you from selling under North Dakota's cottage food law.
Free checklistYour answers folded into the chapter's requirements, ready to print or save as PDF.
Free label generationThe required North Dakota consumer advisory statement plus good-practice label fields, assembled into a printable draft.
Can I sell homemade food in North Dakota?
Usually yes — North Dakota's Cottage Food chapter is one of the most permissive homemade-food laws in the country. There's no license, permit, registration, or sales cap, and it covers far more than shelf-stable baked goods: refrigerated foods are allowed too. Since a 2025 law change, you can also sell online, by phone, by mail, or ship out of state. Meat is the main exception — only poultry you raise and slaughter yourself, capped at 1,000 birds a year, qualifies, and it can't cross state lines. The wizard below checks the choices that commonly change the answer.
Consumer advisory sign at the point of sale, or a label on the product: “This product is made in a home kitchen that is not inspected by the state or local health department.”
Refrigerated products also need safe handling instructions and a disclosure that the product was transported and maintained frozen
Product name, ingredients, allergens, and net weight (best practice, not mandated)
Producer name and contact (recommended)
No state-issued permit number — none is required under this chapter
Common North Dakota cottage food blockers
Meat other than poultry you raised and slaughtered yourself
More than 1,000 poultry slaughtered by you in a calendar year
Shipping poultry products across state lines (still prohibited even after the 2025 change)
Selling into a retail store, restaurant, or food processing plant's own inventory
Selling to anyone other than the informed end consumer, for something other than home consumption