Wyoming: the home-kitchen movement
Food freedom Food freedom act
Wyoming has the nation's original and most expansive Food Freedom Act (W.S. 11-49-101 through 11-49-104), enacted in 2015 and amended several times. It exempts homemade food and drink products sold to informed end consumers from all state and local licensure, permitting, certification, inspection, packaging, and labeling requirements. A 'producer' is capped at 250,000 individual products and $250,000 in gross revenue per year. Sellers must tell buyers the food is not licensed, regulated, or inspected, and homemade or uninspected food may not be used as an ingredient in a commercial food establishment.
Where it stands
No Wyoming Food Freedom Act amendments were enacted in 2026. The most recent enacted change was 2025's SF0120, the Wyoming PRIME Act (Enrolled Act No. 16, effective July 1, 2025), which created W.S. 11-49-103(n)-(o): producers may sell uninspected meat products from cattle, sheep, swine, or goats they raised that were slaughtered on their premises or at a custom slaughter facility, but only after the governor, on the attorney general's advice, certifies that federal law allows direct-to-consumer sales of uninspected meat — as of September 2026 that certification has not occurred, so this provision is not yet operative. The prior major change was 2023's SF0102 (Enrolled Act No. 51, effective July 1, 2023): created the 'designated agent' definition, expanded egg and dairy seller provisions, added that the Department of Agriculture may not impose food/health inspection standards more stringent than USDA's, and added the prohibition on serving or using homemade/uninspected food as an ingredient in a commercial food establishment. Pending: the Joint Agriculture interim committee discussed draft bills in June 2026 (including 27LSO-0046, which would let commercial food establishments use homemade/uninspected food as an ingredient, and a producer-retailer/raw-milk sales concept) and asked for further working-group drafting ahead of the 2027 session — no votes taken, nothing enacted.
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How we got here
- 2026 — Food freedom act
No Wyoming Food Freedom Act amendments were enacted in 2026. Source - 2025 — Food freedom act
The most recent enacted change was 2025's SF0120, the Wyoming PRIME Act (Enrolled Act No. Source - 2025 — Food freedom act
16, effective July 1, 2025), which created W.S. Source - 2026 — Food freedom act
11-49-103(n)-(o): producers may sell uninspected meat products from cattle, sheep, swine, or goats they raised that were slaughtered on their premises or at a custom slaughter facility, but only after the governor, on the attorney general's advice, certifies that federal law allows direct-to-consumer sales of uninspected meat — as of September 2026 that certification has not occurred, so this provision is not yet ope Source
Supporters
On the public record supporting home kitchens in Wyoming.
Tyler Lindholm
State Representative; sponsor of the Wyoming Food Freedom Act (HB 56, 2015)
Source: https://reason.com/2015/03/14/tremendous-victory-for-wyomings-bi
Stan Blake
State Representative; co-sponsor of the Food Freedom Act
Source: https://reason.com/2015/03/14/tremendous-victory-for-wyomings-bi
Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund
Worked in support of the Wyoming Food Freedom Act, signed March 3, 2015
Source: https://www.farmtoconsumer.org/blog/2015/06/26/2015-annual-appea
Opposition
On the public record opposing, described briefly and neutrally.
Casper Star-Tribune (editorial board)
Editorialized against HB 56 in 2015, citing food-safety risk.
Source: http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2015/02/wyoming-editoral-writers-w
The deciders
Governor
Office of the Governor of Wyoming (name not yet verified in this research pass)
Contact the deciders
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