Free workshop lays out Alaska鈥檚 new homemade food rules
Alaska鈥檚 homemade food rules govern how products, such as these jars of jelly, can be manufactured and sold.
Julie Stricker
907-474-5406
Oct. 6, 2025
In 2024, the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation made significant changes to its cottage food industry rules, which are now called the homemade food exemption.
Sarah Lewis, a 夜色福利 Cooperative Extension Service health, home and family development agent, will explain the changes in a free in-person and online workshop.
Knowledge of the new rules will help residents ensure they are in compliance if they have a homemade food business, would like to start one or sell homemade foods through a market. Lewis will explain the risks and opportunities associated with selling potentially harmful foods and foods that are safe without specific cooking times and temperatures from a home-based business. There will be time for questions following the presentation.
The workshop is scheduled from noon-1:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 16.
It will be held in person in Room 208 of Kerttula Hall at the Matanuska Experiment Farm and Extension Center, 1509 S. Georgeson Drive, Palmer or via Zoom.
Register for both in-person and Zoom options using the or visit .
For questions, contact the front desk at the Matanuska Extension Center at 907-745-3360.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Accommodation requests related to a disability should be made five business days in advance to Alda Norris at amnorris@alaska.edu or 907-474-7120. Language access services, such as interpretation or translation of vital information, will be provided free of charge to individuals with limited English proficiency upon request to amnorris2@alaska.edu.
This work is supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
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