Best David Crabill Podcasts (2025)

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Lisa He with My Custom Bakes 59:58

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This is Part 2 of Lisa He’s interview. You can listen to Part 1 on Episode 151. Lisa He lives in Orlando, FL and now runs multiple businesses, including Borderlands Bakery where she sells custom-decorated cookies and cookie decorating supplies. She also has an online course business called Baking with Borderlands, and a software business for cottag…

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Lisa He with Borderlands Bakery 55:21

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Cottage Food Influencers 1:08:08

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In this special 150th episode of The Forrager Podcast, we hear from cottage food industry influencers! The guests on this episode represent over 1.5 million followers across their top platforms! They’ve built communities on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and beyond, all in support of cottage food entrepreneurs. On this episode, each guest shares a q…

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Alanna Ti’a with Sugar, Butter, & Flour 59:57

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Alanna T’ia lives in Columbia, MO and sells semi-custom decorated cakes and other treats with her cottage food business, Sugar, Butter & Flour. Alanna always made her kids’ birthday cakes as they were growing up, but after making her daughter’s wedding cake in 2019, she decided to turn her longtime hobby into a home bakery. It wasn’t long before Al…

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Lauri Lee & Bob Stafford with Lauri Lee’s 59:59

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Lauri Lee & Bob Stafford live in Surprise, AZ and sell low-sodium spices and seasonings with their food business, Lauri Lee’s. Back when Lauri Lee invented her low-sodium seasonings, she had no intentions of selling them, but soon many friends and family were asking for them as well. So in 2023, Lauri Lee and Bob took a big leap of faith and pursue…

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Soralla Gonzalez with Delicious Healthy Bakes 59:57

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Soralla Gonzalez lives in Tampa Bay, FL and sells sourdough and other healthy baked goods with her cottage food business, Delicious Healthy Bakes. Soralla started selling baked goods at the beginning of 2023 and initially thought that she’d focus on keto products, but struggled to find enough demand for them in her area. But one day she brought som…

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Stacey Kimball with Bluebird Confections 59:30

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Stacey Kimball sells alcohol-infused caramels and chocolates with her candy business, Bluebird Confections in Caldwell, ID. Stacey started selling her caramels from home in 2013, expanded into a shared commercial kitchen in 2017, and then rebranded and moved into her own storefront in 2020 right before the pandemic hit. In this episode, Stacey shar…

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Amanda Sharp with The Little Bakery 58:54

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Amanda Sharp lives in McCalla, AL and sells sourdough bread and other baked goods with her cottage food business, The Little Bakery. Amanda always wanted to open her own bakery, but couldn’t practically do so for health-related reasons. During the pandemic, she discovered authentic sourdough, which got her baking and eating bread again, and in 2022…

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Annie Wang with Little Moon Bakehouse 57:19

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Annie Wang lives in Oakland, CA and sells vegan Asian pastries with her food business, Little Moon Bakehouse. Years ago, when Annie switched to eating vegan, she could no longer eat many of the Asian baked goods that she grew up with. She has now created vegan versions of many of those items from her childhood, and she’s built an impressive busines…

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Ana Delgado with Apple & Jars 59:27

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Ana Delgado lives in Wingdale, NY and sells caramel apples and other treats with her cottage food business, Apples & Jars. Ana has an incredible business journey that has taken many turns. She started in 2017 and although her business was very successful, she became overwhelmed and took a break from baking. Then she restarted her business out of a …

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Georgi DeCosta with Georgi’s Goodies 54:17

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Georgi DeCosta lives in Kaneohe, HI and sells banana breads and bundt cakes with her cottage food business, Georgi’s Goodies. Georgi has been through some incredibly dark times in her life. Over 25 years ago, she recovered from a dangerous addiction to meth and heroin, and more recently during the pandemic, she dealt with very serious depression. S…

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Rita Magalde with Sheer Ambrosia 59:58

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Rita Magalde sells baklava and other baked goods with her bakery, Sheer Ambrosia, in Salt Lake City, UT. Rita started her bakery from home back in 2008, and still retains a wholesale account that she acquired in her first year in business. But while some things have been consistent, most haven’t. Her roller coaster business journey includes big ris…

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Michelle Chesser with Home Sweet Home Bakery 59:59

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Michelle Chesser lives in Millersville, MO and sells cinnamon rolls and other baked goods with her home food business, Home Sweet Home Bakery. Michelle started her cottage bakery 16 years ago when she was living in a mobile home trailer and homeschooling her four young kids. She started very small and steadily grew her business until it became so s…

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Chris Martin with bakernobakery 58:50

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Chris Martin lives in Charlottesville, VA and sells Latin American baked goods with her cottage food business, bakernobakery. Chris has been selling baked goods since she was in high school, which led her to culinary school and eventually working for some of the best chefs in the country. While working at a high-end hotel and restaurant, she starte…

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Davia Delgado with Raven Cakes Bakery 59:38

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Davia Delgado lives in Trenton, NJ and sells German baked goods with her cottage food business, Raven Cakes Bakery. Davia has only been running her business for one year, and she is absolutely crushing it! She consistently sells over $2,000 and sometimes even over $3,000 worth of products at her farmers market, and is already at the point where the…

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Elena-Maria Hert with European Baked Delights 54:50

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Elena-Maria Hert lives in Billings, MT and sells European baked goods with her cottage food business, European Baked Delights. Elena grew up in Romania and moved to the United States in 2021. She started sharing her baked goods with neighbors, and they encouraged her to start selling them. Elena started her cottage food bakery in the summer of 2022…

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Allyson Grant with The Better Baker Club 59:58

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Allyson Grant lives in Baldwin City, Kansas and runs an online academy for food entrepreneurs called The Better Baker Club. Allyson started her home bakery 25 years ago, well before the term “cottage food” was even a thing. Her home business expanded so quickly that within just a couple of years, she fulfilled her lifelong dream of opening her own …

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Rachel Laukala with Cakepops by Rachel 59:56

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Rachel Laukala lives in Ravensdale, WA and sells cake pops with her bakery, Cakepops by Rachel. Rachel started her cake pop business back in 2011, and although it was steadily growing, she stopped it to focus more on work and family. But when she had her third son, she realized she wanted to spend more time at home, and her business was reborn. The…

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Meggen Wilson with Pine & Palm Kitchen 59:50

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Meggen Wilson lives in Whitefish, MT and sells vanilla products and apple cider vinegar with her food business, Pine & Palm Kitchen. Meggen only started her cottage food business a year and a half ago, but it has already taken many turns and is growing rapidly. She initially sold at local markets using both Montana’s food freedom law and cottage fo…

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Matt Rosen with Sergeant Shortbread 59:28

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Matt Rosen lives in Eden Prairie, MN and sells gourmet shortbread cookies with his cottage food business, Sergeant Shortbread. Matt has a fascinating story that started completely randomly while he was on vacation. It inspired him to start making shortbread cookies, despite having zero prior baking experience. Before long, he started receiving requ…

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Delaney Peters with Delaney’s Sourdough 59:59

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Delaney Peters lives in Wasilla, AK and sells sourdough baked goods with her cottage food bakery, Delaney’s Sourdough. Delaney has only been in business for just one year, but her sourdough bakery has already grown immensely. At her weekly farmers market, she usually sells over $2k worth of bread in just a few hours! And yet, she says that she star…

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Maci Reed with Bake-a-Reed 58:09

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Maci Reed lives in Dover, NH and sells cupcakes, cookies, custom cakes, and other baked goods with her cottage food business, Bake-a-Reed. Maci never thought she would leave the corporate world and eventually start her own business, but life had other plans for her. Shortly after becoming a new mom, she started offering baked goods to her local com…

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Denise Golia with Dee’s Little Sweets 53:46

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Denise Golia lives in North Providence, RI and sells gluten-free and vegan cupcakes with her cottage food business, Dee’s Little Sweets. When Denise started her business back in 2020, Rhode Island still didn’t have a cottage food law that she could use, so she baked from a shared commercial kitchen instead. However, when Rhode Island passed a decen…

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Jondell Lafont-Garcia with Fluff Marshmallow Co. 59:59

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Jondell Lafont-Garcia of Pflugerville, TX sells marshmallows with her cottage food business, Fluff Marshmallow Co. Homemade marshmallows are trending right now, but Jondell has been making them for 11 years! After many years of making them for just friends and family, she joined a marshmallow Facebook group and got lots of encouragement to start se…

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Wynter Hosier with Etta’s Gooey Goodies 59:56

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Wynter Hosier of Greentown, IN sells macarons and other baked sweets with her food business, Etta’s Gooey Goodies. Wynter started her business from home back in 2016, and it has been quite the crazy ride since then! From navigating Indiana’s very strict cottage food laws, to buying a storefront that she couldn’t even use for 3 whole years, to start…

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Joan Eppehimer & Jason Madison with Aunt Joan’s Pearl City Popcorn 59:24

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Joan Eppehimer lives in Jamestown, NY and sells flavored popcorn with her cottage food business, Aunt Joan’s Pearl City Popcorn. Joan started her business in 2015 as a way to raise money for many different causes, and she has now donated thousands of dollars to charity! Even though her popcorn has always been extremely popular, in 2021, Joan decide…

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Kristi Otto with One More Bite Organic Desserts 59:19

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Kristi Otto lives in Fort Myers, FL and sells organic desserts with her cottage food business, One More Bite Organic Desserts. Kristi has 3 decades worth of experience in the food industry, and she built two unrelated businesses before starting her bakery. So perhaps it’s no surprise that her cottage food business has been quite successful, but tha…

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Nicole DiMarco with All About The Freeze 59:57

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Nicole DiMarco of West Deptford, NJ sells freeze dried candy with her cottage food business, All About The Freeze. Nicole’s entry point into the cottage food world was quite different than most. Many entrepreneurs convert a longtime hobby into a business, but Nicole decided to start a freeze dried candy business before she had any actual experience…

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Steph Uittenbogaard with Fifi’s Patisseries 54:36

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Steph Uittenbogaard of Loveland, CO sells macarons with her cottage food business, Fifi’s Patisseries. Steph never thought she’d run her own baking business, especially one focused on macarons. After her first attempt at making macarons, she never thought she would make them again! But even when she eventually got the hang of making macarons, she n…

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Jenn Bowersock with Jenn’s Backstube 46:25

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Jenn Bowersock lives in Sidney, OH and sells pretzels, donuts, and other authentic German baked goods with her cottage food business, Jenn’s Backstube. Jenn was born and raised in Germany, with fond memories from her childhood of bakeries on nearly every corner, and now she is bringing a little slice of Germany to her corner of the States. Although…

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Alexis Kron with Bakednaz 59:03

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Alexis Kron lives in Bullhead City, AZ and sells luxury cakes and baked treats with her cottage food business, Bakednaz. Alexis started her business right at the beginning of the pandemic, and initially she actually faced quite a bit of resistance from other bakers in her area. But by focusing on serving customers and producing excellent products, …

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Tyler & Angie Worthey with Worthey Peppers 59:58

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Tyler & Angie Worthey live in Neoga, IL and sell hot sauces and other spicy foods with their cottage food business, Worthey Peppers. Although Angie and Tyler now operate the business as a mother-son team, it was Tyler who originally started it as a freshman in high school. In this episode, Tyler shares how he grew the business throughout his high s…

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Ka’Terra Dettbarn with Sweet Addiction 48:50

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Ka’Terra Dettbarn lives in Ocean City, MD, and she and her sister Chakirah sell cupcakes, cakes, cookies, and other baked goods with their cottage food business, Sweet Addiction. Ka’Terra and her sister started the bakery in 2018 and initially thought that they would focus on custom orders of gourmet cupcakes. However, their business had other plan…

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Valerie Allensworth with The Donut Lady 59:24

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Valerie Allensworth of Sitka, AK sells donuts and other baked goods with her cottage food business, The Donut Lady. Valerie used to work at her mom’s commercial food business, but when she had her son a few years ago, she decided to become a stay-at-home mom. However, after a few months she started feeling the itch to bake more, so she started a co…

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Marci Larson with Kahler’s Cakes 46:10

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Marci Larson lives in Sioux Falls, SD and sells baked goods, canned goods, and other items with her cottage food business, Kahler’s Cakes. For many years, Marci thought about selling her baked goods, and she finally took the leap in 2019 and started selling to family and friends. But things really took off when she sold out at her first event a cou…

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Jenifer & Tristan Hoke with The Drunken Chef 52:29

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Jenifer & Tristan Hoke of Tecumseh, OK sell baked goods, smoked spices, and other items with their cottage food business, The Drunken Chef. In their first year of business, they struggled to find consistent sales, despite trying many marketing avenues, including starting their own farmers market. But finally, they found a sales venue that turned ev…

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Rob Sanz with Rise Artisan Sourdough 59:58

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Rob Sanz lives in Rockville, MD, and sells sourdough bread with his cottage food business, Rise Artisan Sourdough. Although Rob is a longtime fan of the podcast, he doesn’t always resonate with guests because many of them have gone full-time with their businesses, whereas Rob prefers to keep his bakery intentionally small. In this episode, Rob shar…

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Elisa Marie Lords with Elisa Marie Baking 1:00:00

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Elisa Marie Lords lives in Placentia, CA and sells southern-inspired baked goods with her cottage food business, Elisa Marie Baking. Elisa spent many years as a professional pastry chef, and when the pandemic hit in 2020, she finally took the leap into starting her own bakery from home. Although her sales were slow at first, she didn’t give up and …

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Tiffany Hill with Think Pink Bakers 55:18

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This is Part 2 of the interview with Tiffany Hill. You can listen to Episode 113 to listen to Part 1. In the last episode, Tiffany shared how she started and grew her cottage food business, The Pink Crumbb. In this episode, she shares how she built off of that success by starting an online course business, called Think Pink Bakers, as well as a pac…

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Tiffany Hill with The Pink Crumbb 53:41

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Tiffany Hill of Apple Valley, CA runs three businesses: her cottage food business called The Pink Crumbb, a paid membership community called Think Pink Bakers, and a bakery packaging business called Pink Design Co. Tiffany’s growth trajectory as a cottage food entrepreneur is simply remarkable! With 300,000+ Instagram followers, it’s hard to believ…

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Mark Elvidge with Vermont Nut Free Chocolates 59:49

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Mark Elvidge and his wife Gail started their business, Vermont Nut Free Chocolates, back in 1998. At the time, they were the very first U.S. chocolate company to be completely nut-free. They also chose to focus solely on e-commerce at a time when selling food online was very uncommon. Back then, Vermont was one of the only states that had a cottage…

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Monique Germaine with Kneading to Bake 56:07

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Monique Germaine of Nashville, TN sells par-baked pizza doughs, cinnamon rolls, shortbreads, and other baked and confectionary goods with her cottage food business, Kneading To Bake. Monique is unique in that she has run her cottage food business in 3 different states so far: Colorado, Georgia, & Tennessee. Plus, before starting Kneading To Bake, s…

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Michelle Dukes with The Cookie Cutters 56:14

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Michelle Dukes lives in Penfield, NY, and sells jumbo muffins and cookies with her cottage food business, The Cookie Cutters. Although Michelle has thousands of Facebook followers and has sold many thousands of baked goods over the past 13 years, she doesn’t run her business to make a large profit or to become a brick-and-mortar someday. Rather, he…

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Shupan Abraham with Cakes By Shupan 57:28

1+ y ago57:28

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Shupan Abraham of Lawrenceville, GA sells custom cakes, cupcakes, and other treats with her cottage food business, Cakes By Shupan. Shupan has been selling her cakes since 2006, but her business didn’t truly take off until a decade later when she invested in a coach, which changed everything! Her business is now thriving, and in this episode, she s…

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David Bock with Buzzed Honeys 58:12

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David Bock lives in Altadena, California, and sells honey with his cottage food business, Buzzed Honeys. David was one of the very first people to sell honey under California’s cottage food law. He’s been running his business for over a decade now and he now does beekeeping full-time. David has a multifaceted business. He specializes in rescuing ho…

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Jessi Deily with Colby Jack Rabbit 58:42

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Jessi Deily of Helena, MT sells macarons and custom-decorated meringue cookies with her cottage food business, Colby Jack Rabbit. After struggling for years to make significant money selling her artwork, she started putting her artistic creativity into baked goods which sold like crazy! Once you see her custom meringue cookies, you’ll understand wh…

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Eric & Denise Steilberger with Fudge De Fûge 55:38

2y ago55:38

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Eric & Denise Steilberger of Ocala, FL sell fudge with their cottage food business, Fudge de Fûge. I’m excited to finally have a fudge business on the show! I’ve always thought that fudge only sells well during the holidays, but Eric and Denise have proven me wrong. They sell fudge all year long, and they sell a LOT of fudge to their loyal customer…

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Kristyn Suemnick with Old Oak Sourdough 59:56

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Kristyn Suemnick lives in Murrieta, CA and sells organic sourdough bread with her cottage food bakery, Old Oak Sourdough. Kristyn had long struggled with gluten intolerance and had not eaten gluten for many years, but once she discovered authentic sourdough bread in 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic, everything changed. She made sourdough bread…

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Megan Shonka with Happy Mango Bakery 59:21

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Megan Shonka lives in Papillion, NE and sells baked goods with her cottage food business, Happy Mango Bakery. Megan has always been an entrepreneur at heart, but it wasn’t until the pandemic hit in 2020 that she finally decided to start her own business. Although she sells baked goods from her home, her real focus is on building community, and that…

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Angela Awunor with Angyono Cakes 59:58

2y ago59:58

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Angela Awunor of Glenn Dale, MD sells high-end custom-decorated cakes with her cottage food business, Angyono Cakes. Most people start their food business from home and eventually move into a commercial kitchen as they grow, but Angela did the exact opposite. When she started her business back in 2016, she chose to rent a commercial kitchen because…