The Cottage Smallholder

Welcome Polyanne. Maybe you could glean some ideas from the people who manage the Fife diet http://fifediet.co.uk/how-to-do-it/. They are an organisation which aims to encourage eating locally sourced foods and so maybe able to point you in the right direction - especially up there in Scotland.

Hi Polyanne and welcome.  Good to have someone else from Scotland here.

I don't know if it is of any use, but I plan to sell home-made cakes etc on a stall in July (for the Rotary charity), and when a speaker from Health & Safety came along one evening, the Rotarians there enquired as to whether a licence was required, and she responded by saying that as long as the stall was run for a maximum of 5 times a year, then no licence was needed. (This is in Wiltshire - don't know if this applies to Scotland)

That is possibly an option for you - to sell your jams/chutney etc at a local event, maybe a few times each year. Another option, perhaps, is to ask for donations for your goods, but that may not give back the reward for the time and effort spent on making them!

Good Luck.

I have still got to find out from my friend what the rules and regulations are for here in Latvia as we hope to eventually by a bus/van to convert into a mobile shop to sell our stuff. We are getting their slowly