Letter: Make it easier for cottage companies on Guam

Letter: Make it easier for cottage companies on Guam

I’m certain you have got noticed, like We have, there are more and more people online offering homemade meals on Facebook groups or household WhatsApp chats. Perhaps you’ve even wondered: could be the food secure?

All 50 states, Puerto Rico therefore the Virgin isles have simplified laws for small-scale, low-risk meals vendors such as for example these. They are called “cottage industry” laws and regulations.

Cottage companies are understood to be company, manufacturing and/or food manufacturing this is certainly carried out in a person’s home or dwelling for small-scale purchase on roadsides, farmer’s areas , to household and friends or on line. We have seen a expansion of those companies on Guam since the pandemic began, as people struggling to guide their own families are looking at imaginative and revolutionary how to make a living.

Also before this pandemic, an example we possibly may all know about is those attempting to sell tuba on the roadside. This could be from the household which makes them from coconut trees on the house or ranch home. This sort of entrepreneurship happens to be section of our tradition so long as this manamko’ can keep in mind. Continue reading “Letter: Make it easier for cottage companies on Guam”