The Freeze Dried Trend with Janna Newcomb Walworth

The Forrager Podcast for Cottage Food Businesses

Janna Newcomb Walworth of Choctaw, OK sells freeze-dried foods with her cottage food business, Janna’s Freeze Dried.

Since the pandemic, freeze-dried foods (especially freeze-dried candy) have become a big cottage food trend.

Janna bought her first freeze dryer in 2020 to help preserve her family’s food, but little did she know that it would turn into a thriving business!

Soon people were asking to buy her products, stores started asking to sell them, and demand has organically grown to the point where she now has 5 freeze dryers, which cost a few thousand dollars each!

Janna has become pretty obsessed with freeze drying anything and everything, and as you’ll see, it’s paid off in a big way.

What You’ll Learn

• How freeze drying works
• The advantages of freeze dried food
• Some of the most unique things you can freeze dry
• Items that you can’t freeze dry
• Janna’s best-selling freeze-dried items
• How to use a freeze dryer
• Whether or not you should buy a freeze dryer
• The challenge of pricing freeze dried products
• Why it’s essential to offer product samples
• Why the freeze dried food trend is unlikely to end

Resources

Janna’s Freeze Dried Facebook Page

Video about Janna’s business

Harvest Right Freeze Dryers

Recommended Facebook Groups:

• Retired at 40’s Freeze Drying Group
• Betty’s Harvest Right Freeze Dryers Group

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Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/93