By Suzanne Driessen Extension food safety educator Do you have extra produce in your garden? Make the tastiest granola? Perfected jalepeño apricot buffalo wing sauce? Why not turn these products into a cottage food business and join the ranks of 2600 Minnesota registered cottage food producers. Under the 2015 Minnesota Cottage Food law, many shelf stable or unrefrigerated food products made in a home kitchen can be sold to the direct consumer at farmers’ markets and community events. Examples of cottage foods include high-acid, canned food products--preserves, pickles and salsas--and low-moisture baked goods fruit pies, bread, pastries, cakes, cookies and specialty items like candy, dried herbs jam and jelly dry mixes, flavored vinegars and more. Interested? Here are tips to get started as a cottage food producer (CFP): Learn the provisions of the law . Check out the allowed and not allowed food list here . Stop by your local farmers’ market. What are other CFPs m