After eight years in our home on the hill in Duxbury, we have moved into a beautiful new home in “downtown” Middlesex, Vermont.
We’re only 6 miles from our old site, so still very much “in the neighborhood,” but in so many ways we’re a world away from our first home. Our good friends Donny and Lise Wexler, after a few years of searching, found a property in Middlesex that they saw as a potential bakery site. Those who know the area and the previous incarnation of the Camp Meade property might realize what an unlikely and truly visionary idea this was. Donny and Lise followed through on their vision by enlisting another old mutual friend, Russ Bennett (and his company, Northland Construction), to design and build a new building on the property. This gave us the unusual oppurtunity to participate in planning a facility that would be constructed with our needs in mind. Mid-November marked the first (and most significant) step in realizing this incredible dream as we moved into our new home. On Monday and Tuesday, November 12th. and 13th., our crew banded together to move our entire operation to Middlesex. For the first time in over eight years, more than 24 hours passed without a fresh loaf of Red Hen bread coming out of the oven. But on November 14th., we resumed our familiar work in a beautifully unfamiliar, but very comfortable setting.
Looking back on the years and loaves that brought us to this point, we’re incredibly thankful that we have been received so warmly by the surrounding community. Anyone who knows the story of the “The Little Red Hen” knows that it really takes a community to bake a loaf of bread. A location such as the one we now call home was not in our wildest dreams when we started with one full-time employee in September of 1999. Now, two years shy of a decade later, we have 24 employees and a beautiful building... all this thanks to the support of bread-lovers throughout Vermont.
Although we have been almost completely a wholesale business since our inception, one of the most exciting aspects or our move is the opportunity to have a retail shop which really expresses who we are and what we are all about. Right now our new production space has two large windows which give us a view of sheetrockers and carpenters working to prepare our new retail space. Soon it will provide a very real connection to the people that we are working for: our customers. And of course it will give everyone who comes in a little view of the bread baking process. We look forward to seeing you soon!

-- Randy and Liza