Arkansas's Food Freedom Act lets Fayetteville home cooks sell homemade food directly to consumers with no license, inspection, or sales cap — just proper labeling. Fayetteville's zoning reinforces this, listing sales of home-produced food among allowed home-occupation uses.
Arkansas has one of the most permissive cottage food laws in the country. The Arkansas Food Freedom Act (Ark. Code §20-57-501 et seq., 2021) allows a homemade-food producer to sell directly to consumers without a permit, inspection, or revenue cap, including some products other states forbid; the main requirement is a label with the producer's information and a home-kitchen disclosure. Fayetteville's Unified Development Code aligns with this: Use Unit 24 home occupations expressly include sales of home-produced agricultural products such as produce, eggs, honey, jams and jellies, and milk products. Selling at farmers markets or directly from home is permitted.
Cottage food operators face little enforcement, but misbranded or unlabeled products, or selling prohibited high-risk foods, can draw state action and local nuisance penalties.
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