Lauren built Black Sheep Baking Co. from a home kitchen into a growing Hudson bakery, drawing on roughly 12 years in Cleveland’s restaurant and baking community. Today, the company supplies wholesale partners and appears at the Cuyahoga Valley Farmers’ Market, with a cafe bakery planned for late spring 2026.
Sixteen BricksOwner and head baker Ryan Morgan’s journey from mechanic and engineer to artisan baker shapes Sixteen Bricks, a Cincinnati bakery and wholesaler serving chefs and discerning customers. The bakery handmakes each loaf after a slow natural fermentation, using a restrained formula centered on wheat flour, water, salt and sometimes yeast. Its work also supports second chances and community partnerships, tying breadmaking to a broader purpose in Cincinnati.CINCINNATI, OH
Blackbird Baking CompanySince opening in Lakewood in June 2009, husband-and-wife team Tom and Adria Clark have run Blackbird Baking Company as a neighborhood bakery making European-inspired breads and pastries by hand. Tom, a Lakewood native who trained in Portland, brings a baker’s craft to naturally yeasted levain loaves, croissants and the bakery’s award-winning Salted Chocolate Chip cookie. Everything is made from scratch and fresh daily, with ingredients including European butter and free-range eggs from local farmers.LAKEWOOD, OH
Amy’s BreadAmy Scherber opened Amy’s Bread in Hell’s Kitchen in 1992, and she still runs the bakery with her husband, Troy Rohne. Now a 100-person New York City institution, the company keeps its neighborhood-bakery character while supplying cafés and more than 200 wholesale customers with bread shaped by hand and baked fresh each day.LONG ISLAND CITY, NY
The Good Batch BakeryChef Anna Gordon’s cookie business, launched at the Brooklyn Flea in 2010, grew into The Good Batch’s Clinton Hill flagship in 2014. Gordon and her husband, Steven Hartong, run the bakery as a neighborhood fixture that supplies fresh baked goods to its Brooklyn customers and retailers across New York City, including its signature cookies.BROOKLYN, NY