Healthy Grains, Wealthy Gains with Tamara Ketchian

The Forrager Podcast for Cottage Food Businesses

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Tamara Ketchian lives in Orange, CT and sells gluten-free vegan granola with her cottage food business, Wildwood Granola.

Tamara started her granola business in 2021 after years of making healthier granola for her family. After being a long-time stay-at-home mom, she was finally ready to do something for herself.

In the past two and a half years, her business has grown substantially and she recently won a pitch competition where she received a $10k business grant to help grow her business!

She has now expanded into a commercial kitchen so that she can sell in stores, ship nationwide, and keep pursuing her long-time dream of building a successful food business.

What You’ll Learn

How Tamara went from a stay-at-home mom to successful entrepreneur
Why most granola is actually unhealthy for you
How to get a cottage food license in Connecticut
The mindset you need to have as an entrepreneur
The challenge with finding work-life balance as an entrepreneur
Why you shouldn’t try to cater your products to everyone
An alternate strategy to raising prices
Why recurring customers are the lifeblood of a business
How to streamline the packaging process
Where to get ingredients and packaging for granola
What you need to consider when labeling products
Why a commercial kitchen can be “life changing”
How to adapt recipes to a commercial kitchen
What you need to consider when finding a commercial kitchen
Resources for learning how to expand into wholesale
How to win a pitch competition

Resources

Wildwood Granola website (Facebook | Instagram)

Women’s Business Development Council

Connecticut Small Business Administration

Recommended Stores:

Aurora (nuts and seeds)
Nuts (dried fruit)
WebstaurantStore (coconut oil & Bob’s Red Mill)
Amazon (craft paper bags)

Connecticut Cottage Food Law

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