Wow! Spring has come in with a flood of events: birthdays, weddings and barbecues.

It seems that everyone has been waiting for these warm weekends to arrive. We have so many beautiful additions, here, in your Market Bakery that will make your event grand. It’s hard to choose just one of my favorites, so I’ll tell you about a few of them.

We have incredibly fresh hamburger and hot dog buns, made from scratch and available in wheat or white Shepherd’s Grain flour. Our Bakers really love creating these! We make them from our delicious bun dough, ready to be hand rolled and formed into lovely rolls. The warm, yeasty smell of dough rising brings back memories of holidays past, when, as a team, we roll dough as fast as we can prepare them for our customers’ family dinners. I digress … Once the perfect size is achieved, we pop them into the oven. The smell of warm bread baking is unmatched.

I’m excited to be working with a new group of local farmers, who will soon supply us with 100% whole-wheat flour for baking. As I write this, the wheat is growing about a foot tall in fields near Junction City, just north of Eugene. Basking in the sun and drinking up the spring rains, it is a lovely green right now.

My dad, a horticulturalist, checks in on local crops around there, so I get a report now and then on how “my” wheat is doing. This group of farmers is just starting to grow hard wheat here in the Willamette Valley. Soon, they will have a mill built on their land and will be equipped to prepare the flour for us.

Look for the special “Local Loaves” label on our wheat breads soon. We won’t have much the first few years, but we’ll use what they provide. Until our local wheat flour is ready, we will continue to use the incredible Shepherd’s Grain flour you’ve come to love.

Nothing complements your favorite burgers, hot dogs or sausages like Market Bakery buns!