Florida's cottage food law lets home-based producers sell certain shelf-stable foods — breads, cookies, cakes, and similar baked goods — directly to customers without a commercial kitchen license.
For a rural ZIP like 32776, this matters. A commercial storefront needs volume that Sorrento's population simply can't support seven days a week. A weekend preorder bakery can.
The tradeoffs are real and we're upfront about them: limited weekly quantities, direct-to-customer sales only, and no wholesale to restaurants or grocery stores.
What you get in return is bread baked in small batches by a person whose name you know, using ingredients you can ask about, on a schedule set by fermentation rather than a shift clock.
If you're a neighbor thinking about starting something similar, start smaller than you think and log everything. The law makes it possible; the discipline makes it work.