This week, Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund and Kenduskeag Kitchen agreed to dismiss litigation against the State of Maine Health and Human Services because we got what we wanted: changes to the Maine Food Sovereignty Act.

The law now explicitly empowers communities to decide whether preparation of meals from a home kitchen with local ingredients is lawful without regulatory oversight.

Effective next month, Maine LD 124 will protect the right of producers to sell — and, by extension, consumers to buy — cooked meals from a home kitchen!