ARRRGGGGHHHH!!!! 
I'm getting so frustrated w/this whole business at my home (garage/seperate building on property) thing! I've been calling around for the past month and seemed to be getting pretty good info...until today!! I called someone w/the dept. of Ag...who I was referred to by Food Safety. She said EVERYTHING I was told by Food Safety was WRONG!!! How could that be!!! Don't they have the same rules!!! Then goes on to tell me that maybe this isn't the right ventre for me and I should look at other options!! 
I told her the other options were NOT options for me and this is what I wanted to do. I just need to know where I'm suppose to start. I told her I understand there alot of requirements and was willing to do what I need to....but need someone to tell me, the right things, to do to basically get the ball rolling!!!
She is sending me a packet to look over and think (yeah, she said to THINK )about everything I'm going to need to do. I told her I've read through everything online and thought I had a good understanding of what I was going to need...and was prepared to do what I have to!!
Just talking to everyone it seems fairly easy and straightforward, but I work for the gov't. I know this is going to turn into a HUGE headache for someone who isn't familiar w/those specific rules/regs. I think they do that b/c they know most people won't bother w/it.
Now to my point.....does anyone know if there are people out there who help start these type of businesses?? What do I look under in the phone book?? I don't want someone who will do it all....just provide more quidance than I've been getting. I was thinking about talking to some small cafe/bakery type businesses....but not sure they will really help. We've been approved for the loan (we close next week
), I have my husband on board, someone willing to do the construction work for me....and I'm ready to start!!!! But if I have to keep making all these stupid phone calls just to figure what I need to do FIRST....I'll never get anywhere!!!! 
I'm getting so frustrated w/this whole business at my home (garage/seperate building on property) thing! I've been calling around for the past month and seemed to be getting pretty good info...until today!! I called someone w/the dept. of Ag...who I was referred to by Food Safety. She said EVERYTHING I was told by Food Safety was WRONG!!! How could that be!!! Don't they have the same rules!!! Then goes on to tell me that maybe this isn't the right ventre for me and I should look at other options!! I told her the other options were NOT options for me and this is what I wanted to do. I just need to know where I'm suppose to start. I told her I understand there alot of requirements and was willing to do what I need to....but need someone to tell me, the right things, to do to basically get the ball rolling!!!She is sending me a packet to look over and think (yeah, she said to THINK
)about everything I'm going to need to do. I told her I've read through everything online and thought I had a good understanding of what I was going to need...and was prepared to do what I have to!!Just talking to everyone it seems fairly easy and straightforward, but I work for the gov't. I know this is going to turn into a HUGE headache for someone who isn't familiar w/those specific rules/regs. I think they do that b/c they know most people won't bother w/it.
Now to my point.....does anyone know if there are people out there who help start these type of businesses?? What do I look under in the phone book?? I don't want someone who will do it all....just provide more quidance than I've been getting. I was thinking about talking to some small cafe/bakery type businesses....but not sure they will really help. We've been approved for the loan (we close next week
), I have my husband on board, someone willing to do the construction work for me....and I'm ready to start!!!! But if I have to keep making all these stupid phone calls just to figure what I need to do FIRST....I'll never get anywhere!!!! 
