Real ingredients
No fillers, no shortcuts. Ingredients you can recognize, sourced as locally as the recipe allows.
Cottage Food · Chattanooga, TN
Two Chattanooga makers.
One front door.
Homemade goods, made by your neighbors.
Chattanooga Collective is a small group of independent cottage food makers cooking and bottling out of our home kitchens. Each of us runs our own thing — we band together so it’s easier for you to find us.
Member Vendors
The Collective
Two makers, two distinct kitchens. Each runs their own thing — order direct from the maker.
Sichuan · Chili Crisp
Starving Dragon
Spewing heat since 2026.
Craft-batch Sichuan chili crisp oil, slow-cooked and hand-bottled in Chattanooga, TN. Complex numbing heat, fragrant aromatics, and a satisfying crunch.
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Functional foods from the foothills.
Allergen-free foods enriched with functional superfoods — sea vegetables, adaptogenic mushrooms, ayurvedic spices. Rooted in Appalachia, made to taste as good (or better) than the conventional alternative.
Coming soonWhy a Collective?
Independent, together.
Cottage food making is personal work. Each maker pours real care into what they do — but being found, trusted, and remembered is hard to do alone.
The Collective is the front door, not a parent company. Each vendor runs their own kitchen, sets their own prices, and handles their own orders. We pool our reach so neighbors can find us.
Everything sold through the Collective is made locally, in small batches, by hand.
What we stand for
The short version.
Made in Chattanooga
Made in home kitchens by people who live here, under Tennessee’s Domestic Kitchen rules. Buying from us is buying from a neighbor.
Independent, together
Each vendor runs their own kitchen and brand. The Collective is a directory and a front door — never a layer between you and the maker.
Find Us
Saturdays at the HiLo Market.
Most Saturday mornings you can find us at the Highland Park Farmers Market. Stop by, taste what we’re making, and pick up an order without the back-and-forth.
Schedules can shift week to week — for a specific vendor or product, check their page first. More on where to find us →