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[quote=Anonymous]Farmers Market manager here (MD)

I beg you, pick any other hobby other than baked goods to try to sell.  Goat milk soap, candles, jewelry, start plants, ANYTHING but another cottage baker. I blame Food Network for this, but we are inundated with cottage bakers who want to sell their cookies, pies, cakes, bars, whatever and I turn most of them down.  Most markets limit products to one or two vendors so that the vendors maximize their sales.  I have one cookie/bar/cake pop vendor, one pie vendor, and one artisan bread maker at our local exurb market and that is plenty of baked goods each week.  I turn down roughly 20 cottage baker applicants every year, and getting into the market is pretty much a juried competition for bakers.  Pick another thing to do, cottage baking isn't it because [b]everyone[/b] is doing it.

You will also be required to have business liability insurance and be prepared to be inspected by whatever county health department, our market gets inspected at least once a year - the inspector goes to each vendor and asks to see any relevant licenses/permits (per product), ingredient lists (baked goods), checks temperatures on coolers, etc. [/quote]

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