The first stop was a storefront and Hometown Bread and Coffee Company was born in May of 2002. The bakery/roastery lasted a short 18 months and had more success than was anticipated. An unfortunate electrical fire in the building caused the doors to close in October of 2003. The artistry of baking had taken hold and friends were made, this could not possibly be the final curtain.

After a brief regrouping, I decided that I wanted to take baking back to its elemental form in the shape of a wood-fired oven and that would be the next act. I had a Quebec-style oven built in my backyard and off I was again baking in the summer months and selling at the Lancaster Farmers Market in Lancaster, NH.

I had 2 summers of success, but family circumstances dictated that a move was in store for us. I went back to my profession as an ED Physician and during the next 14 years, while I practiced medicine, I thought about the shape and form that baking would take when I would eventually enter back into that profession.

The form that emerged was not what I had anticipated and it is still evolving. After 2 years of being back at the Lancaster Farmers Market in the Summer months, I have walls around the original wood oven, a great many new friends, and the excitement of whatever is in store. I hope that you come along as we give these dormant roots a second chance to grow.