Home kitchens in Montana
109 home kitchens listed in Montana and counting. Browse the directory, check the rules, claim your kitchen, or list your own.
Find a home kitchen in Montana
109 listings — by track: 14 cottage producers · 95 street vendors. Search, filter, or use your location to sort by distance.
Three tracks, three different kinds of food business. 🍳 Home Kitchen — Meals: permitted home kitchens cooking meals. 🥧 Cottage Food — Shelf-Stable: home producers of shelf-stable foods (baked goods, jams, candy) — preorder / pickup, not restaurant-style reservations. 🌮 Street Food — Sidewalk & Mobile: vendors selling in public places — they do NOT cook from home kitchens; they hold different permits and are walk-up only, with no bookings. Listings badged 🌾 Food Freedom sit under a state law broader than cottage food; in the track filter they count under Meals when they sell hot/prepared food and under Cottage when they sell shelf-stable goods.
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🍳 Run a home kitchen in Montana?
Claim your listing with proof of your Montana Cottage food law permit, license, or registration — whichever your program issues — and unlock the Owner Studio: your logo and colors, photos, menu, reviews, QR code, and booking requests.
Cottage producers: claim with proof of your Montana Cottage food law registration or permit — whichever your program issues — and your listing carries the Cottage Food badge with preorder / pickup requests, never reservations.
Street & mobile vendors: you are a separate track — you do not cook from a home kitchen. Claim with your mobile/sidewalk vending permit (in the permit type your state or county issues) and your profile shows your typical area and where you are often found — walk-up only, no bookings.
The rules in Montana
⚖️ Montana home-kitchen laws — snapshot
Mixed: state + county Cottage food lawFood freedom act
Sales cap: NO SALES CAP in either of Montana's home-kitchen regimes. The cottage food statutes (50-50-116, 50-50-117 — unchanged since 2015) and the Montana Local Food…
Allowed foods: COTTAGE FOOD (50-50-102, 50-50-116, 50-50-117): only foods that are NOT potentially hazardous — jams, jellies, dried fruit, dry mixes, and baked goods, plus…
Start your own
👩🍳 Start a home kitchen in Montana
Montana sets statewide rules but counties add their own — check both levels, then follow the general roadmap.
Events & news in Montana
Recent changes: 2024: No changes to Montana's home-kitchen statutes. Montana's legislature holds regular sessions in odd-numbered years (68th Legislature in 2023, 69th in 2025), so there was no 2024 regular session. 2025: SB 161 (Sen. Hertz), 'Provide for regulation and sale of aquaculture,' signed into law; Chapter 344, Laws of 2025, effective on passage and approval. It amended the MLFCA (50-49-203) and the…
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