“I would go to (Tartine) every single week,” stated Hofseth, a California native who moved to Camas in 2019 and to Washougal in 2022. “One of my deliveries was across the street from the bakery, and I would stop in there every week and get a loaf for me and my husband, and I fell in love with it. A few years later, I started making it.”
Hofseth stated that her thought to start out a enterprise developed organically.
“I started baking sourdough a few years ago for my family, and I really loved it, and I wanted to share it with neighbors and friends, so I started sharing loaves on a weekly basis,” she stated. “At a certain point, a friend told me that she knew someone who was selling their bread. It hadn’t occurred to me before to sell my bread, and I thought, ‘Well, I’m baking and giving away so many (loaves), I may as well start selling them.’ It snowballed into a whole endeavor. I always had the heart of an entrepreneur, so I couldn’t help but make it a business.”
Hofseth, who acquired a cottage meals allow from the Washington State Division of Agriculture and a meals employee’s card from the Washington State Division of Well being, stated that operating an at-home microbakery fits her life higher than her earlier profession operating a panorama design and set up agency.
“I loved it, and it was starting to grow, but once I started homeschooling kids, I couldn’t continue work outside of the home,” she stated. “This microbakery allows me to stay at home, homeschool my kids and contribute to the community in a meaningful way. It checks all the boxes.”