Kim

Over the years from the beginning in 2017 to now we have had the privilege of employing a wonderful team that supports us in our business. Our amazing staff is what enables us to run our business and we are extremely grateful for all the hard work they put into the bakery and for the dedication that they continue to show.  The behind the scenes work of a bakery has many factors to get the end products that we are able to sell to our customers and the effort our staff put in is noticeable in the quality we are able to provide. Towards the end of 2024, we transitioned our team to include a Manager to enable the success and sustainability of the bakery as life brought us changes and we are excited about what the future holds. 

Baking has been part of my life for as long as I can remember and that combined with growing up on a farm in Southern Alberta gave me the experience of hard work, dedication and the life of small business owner from a young age. After high school I received my Baking and Pastry Arts Diploma as well as my Red Seal in Baking. I was able to work at various places in Calgary and had the ability to travel to several cities and countries to gain more insight into the artisan baking world before moving to Fort Macleod to open Homestead Bakeshop in 2017. I had always loved the view of the mountains has so the ability to open a bakery in Fort Macleod was been a dream come true. We have now nearly been here to 9 years and are thankful for the support and welcome we continue to receive from the community. In the years since we opened the bakery I can clearly see how God used it in my story and I am thankful for the ways I have grown and changed through it. It is also exciting that we have reached a stage of the business where I am able to also spend part of my year at the bakery and part of the year around the world in mission work.

I have been involved in the culinary world for a long time. My first dreams were of baking, growing up I would spend hours looking at a baking recipe books baking for my mom. I started working in a restaurant during high school to learn the basics of cooking, teamwork and management. After 3.5 years I decided I wanted to pursue a baking career and enrolled in SAIT for my Baking and Pastry Arts Diploma and it has been an amazing journey since. With all the inspiring talented chefs at SAIT I learned to love baking like I'd never before. We also learned the basics of starting your own business and some of the variables that go into operations of a bakery. During and after SAIT I worked in several places in Alberta and BC to gain more experience and skills. Owning my own bakery was always a goal and I was able to observe and learn more about the business side of things in several of those jobs. We opened Homestead Bakeshop and we have been grateful to see the value it brings to the community and the appreciation we have received. I got married in in 2023 and we welcomed an beautiful little girl into our lives the summer of 2024. Its been a blessing to still own our bakery that we worked for and seeing it succeed while focusing on my little family.