Lady A's Bakery and Crafts

04/18/2026

For everyone seeing that there won't be a Tori Market in Hancock on Thursdays this coming season, the amazing Gina Kerr has stepped up and there will be a Thursday AND a Saturday market in Hancock

10/27/2025

New galette flavor test. Apple Cranberry Orange.
Taste testers say "2 thumbs up" (including the construction guys next door who did some high hammering for me.)

10/04/2025

Hey all,
Just got back from the Calumet Farmer's Market(10-2) and picked up Kombucha Lemon Blueberry donuts from Laurium Little Bites made from local kombucha.

They are DELICIOUS. You should hit them up. Yum!

Also, the amazing Gina Kerr has TONS of plum tomatoes. I picked up 2 big bags to make some tomato sauce for canning and maybe to throw in the salsa im making today.

Tis the season for fresh vegetables and yummy things. Soon it'll be snow up to our butts and we'll be wishing for one freaking tomato that tastes good. Enjoy them while they last.

11/21/2024

We've really missed all of our market friends this year, but I think you all know my mom (The apple bar lady) was in hospice. She passed this morning, quietly in her own home, with her children and grandchildren around her.
We will miss her a lot.

07/12/2024

My CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) share from the lovely Gina Kerr has a bunch of salad greens and I wanted a big leafy salad.

I stopped in at Ghost House Farm last night for some tomatoes. I got some from at the Calumet Market on Saturday and ate them all on the way home. This is pretty early for tomatoes, here in the great white north but (as several farmers told me with a touch of envy in their voice) Ghost House has a heated hoop house so they have early tomatoes.

I was a little late for their farm stand to be open but Drew invited me for a tour of said heated hoop house and we picked some tomatoes off the vine.

They absolutely have THE TOUCH. The tomato plants were stretched along stings to the ceiling, the cherry tomatoes had been "dropped" already and were in the neighborhood of 15 feet tall and absolutely loaded with tomatoes in various stages of ripening. The wall o' peppers were shoulder high on me and most were absolutely loaded...they have the best tasting jalapenos I've ever had. Sweet and hot and absolutely flavorful.

Last year I gave them some Sugar Rish Peach Pepper seeds I have had absolutely no luck with and they are LOADED. I'm looking forward to finally tasting them!

We discussed ...well..what gardeners and farmers discuss... Manure, fish emulsion, soil mixes and cabbage moths amongst other things. They have rows and rows of warm weather and cold weather vegetables in their outside beds which are coming along nicely.

If you're looking for early tomatoes, see Ghost House at the local markets. Yum (and when their peppers are ripe, I highly recommend theirs.)

06/07/2024

Dear friends.
After much consideration Vicki, Pat and I have found that we just don't have time or energy to bake for the markets this year.
We've been snowed under with trying to take care of all of our other responsibilities. We will try and get to some of the markets this year but with taking care of all our responsibilities we're just not going to be able to do it twice a week.
We will miss all of you who have been loyal customers and friends for the past 15 years and will hopefully be back next summer and will try to see you a couple of times this year as the season wears on and things calm down.
If you want something specific please feel free to call either Victoria's Kitchen (906-482-8650) or catch Pat and I here and we'll be happy to accommodate you.
Thank you for your business and please continue to support local businesses by supporting your local farmers markets.
Many thanks to Sarah and Moriah for their patience.
Lake Linden Farmer's Market
Chassell Farmers Market

06/04/2024

Friends, with the stress of the truck crash earlier in May and my mom breaking her hip then getting a hip replacement, we're not going to make the Chassell Farmers Market this week and maybe not the Lake Linden Farmer's Market either. We will try to make the markets starting next week...I hope.

05/23/2024

All you folks who have been waiting impaitently for the return of my mom's apple bars.
She fell in her house yesterday and broke her hip. Probably not going to be any bars this summer, unless they happen late or unless she finally gives someone the actual recipe instead of her "from memory" recipe which has, on occasion, failed to mention ingredients like "apples". (She needs someone to stand there while she makes them :)
Please send good thoughts and healing light to my mom tomorrow morning for her hip surgery.

04/27/2024

Market season is just about upon us (starts in June) and I'm thinking about what we should be thinking about offering this year.
Should we offer more flavors for scones? or loukoumadas? Should we offer different types of bakery like bars or cakes or cookies? Smaller portions? Larger portions? Is there something we've done in the past (pie, cobbler) that you'd like to see come back?

03/13/2024

Hey farmer friends.

Very interesting article

By tapping into underground fungal networks, farmers are learning how to build lush, spongy soil that supports healthy plants and stores carbon underground.