Growing up in Kliding, a small town in Germany, Petra Vigil, owner of Petra’s Backstubchen, learned how to bake from her mother and her aunts. “I always baked. My Mom was always baking and cooking big meals. It was normal to me,” says Petra, “I think if my Mom hadn’t taught be so much I wouldn’t be here.”When Petra moved to Utah over 25 years ago, she brought her baking … [Read more...]
Made In Utah – Sweet Makers
RubySnap RubySnap is probably the only cookie maker in Utah who has taken on the largest cookie monster in the world - the Pillsbury Doughboy. After being sued by Pillsbury to change her name, My Dough Girl, or risk getting crushed by a team of lawyers and inferior cookies, Tami Cromar didn't give up, she re-branded as Ruby and grown her business ever since. RubySnap cookies … [Read more...]
Beehive Naturals
“Our kids actually do a lot of the work on the farm—milking goats and tending bees. When we aren’t farming we put them to work making the products.”The Ginn kids don’t play video games or watch TV (except an occasional football game) instead, Sam Ginn says, “They help me with the massive amount of work” on their small backyard homestead in Plain City (just north of … [Read more...]