Friday & Saturday - June 4^th & 5^th, 2010

The Homestead Bakery Booth

in Downtown Arthur, Illinois

That’s when and where you’ll want to be to have a taste of some delicious made-from-scratch Amish baked goods fresh from The Homestead Bakery ovens. We’re pitching our tent at the renowned Arthur springtime “Strawberry Jam” festival. You need to be here!

Look us up while you’re meandering through all the festivities. It’s always a fun time at the Strawberry Jam. And it’s a great way to stock up on all our delectable sweet and specialty breads, cookie assortments, famous various-flavored angel food cakes, and our mouthwatering caramel-iced cinnamon rolls.

look for

The Homestead Bakery booth.

Don’t go home without visiting us first!

Doors are open at

The Homestead Bakery

It’s only the beginning of April and already our retail doors have sprung open! We look forward to having all of you back with us again as you choose The Homestead Bakery to help stock your food pantry.

Come on in for your fresh, made-from-scratch Amish baked goods that you have come to love – sweet breads, specialty breads, yeast breads, snickerdoodles, peanut butter cookies, chocolate chip cookies, chocolate crinkle cookies, oatmeal raisin cookies, iced cut-out cookies, caramel-iced cinnamon rolls, sticky pecan rolls, and so many delightful flavors of our famous “mountain-high” angel food cakes.

And, yes, we’re getting our shelves filled up with our wonderful noodles, relishes, pickled veggies, salsas, mustards and fruit butters, as well as topnotch chocolates and confections.

Our shelves are also sprinkled with those unique and lovely wares, trinkets and decorating materials that tend to strike the fancy of the prudent shopper. And don’t forget to peruse our Homestead Seeds shelves to get this year’s pumpkin, gourd and squash garden off to a grand start!

As always, here at The Homestead Bakery, you’ll find so many of the items on your shopping list, along with one or two extras you forgot to write down!

Our initial walk-in retail hours will start out being 11:00am – 2:00pm on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. As our Open House celebration on Saturday, June 5^th creeps up on us, we may be able to add an hour here or there to better suit everyone’s shopping schedules. Feel free to call ahead at 217-543-3700 for potential hour changes. See you here soon!

If it’s made from scratch and made to perfection, then it must be something you picked up at The Homestead Bakery in Arthur IL. It’s the well-stocked kitchen pantry that always has something yummy in it from The Homestead Bakery (THB).

So much to choose from!

Build your main course around our delicious assortment of noodles,  along with our breads and dinner rolls that you can accessorize with our fresh jams and fruit butters, while “siding up” the meal with our relishes, pickled vegetables and salsas. Then round out the meal with the perfect dessert from our extensive lineup of cakes, cookies, sweet and specialty breads, and our caramel iced cinnamon rolls and our sticky pecan rolls. Try really hard to save one or two of those delectable cinnamon or sticky pecan rolls for tomorrow’s breakfast!!

So much to Sample!

We’ll see you here at The Homestead Bakery’s 5^th Anniversary Open House on Saturday, June 5^th any time from 9:00am to 3:00pm. You’ll also get the chance to visit with award-winning gourd artists who’ll have their booths set up right here at The Patch for 2010’s Great Gourd Gathering. Don’t miss any of the fun and good eats!

 Oh, why wait for the official Open House? Our doors will be open for walk-in shopping by May 3, 2010 from 9:00am to 3:00pm, Monday through Saturday each week. Come on in! 

Lori (Casey) and Kate (Pleasant) are marking the premier of the 8^th season of WEIU-TV’s Heartland Highways by including an engaging segment on The Homestead Seeds [THS] company located in Arthur Illinois. In 2009, The Great Pumpkin Patch carved out some very evocative retail space for THS to show off its heirloom, rare and common squash, gourd and pumpkin seed displays. Our THS Store is rustic and historic, and well-stocked with nearly 100 of these cucurbit seeds during each annual Patch season from Sept 15^th through Oct 31^st. Also, The Homestead Bakery has been quite generous in etching out a comfy corner in their retail showroom to accommodate off-Patch-season seed purchases to all of their walk-in shoppers.

Be sure to watch Lori and Kate as they impressively expose the Homestead Seeds story with the facts, footage and interviews that reveal why The Homestead Seeds has become such a prominent heirloom seed source for worldwide squash, gourd and pumpkin growers. Our story airs on WEIU-TV on Friday, March 26^th at 7:00pm, and on Sunday, March 28^th at 4:00pm. [It also airs on RFDTV on Monday, April 19^th at 1:00pm and at 11:00pm CST.]

One might think Mac and his impressive crew are running low on steam and energy, poppin’ all around the Midwest countryside to hoist their famous TGPP cucurbit skyscrapers. But it may just be this onset of exhaustion that actually amps up their stamina and pumps up their creativity. Mac and crew are not done yet!! Near the end of this September, they are headed toward the East Coast.

Longwood Gardens, in Kennett Square of Philadelphia PA, encompasses 1,050 acres of gardens, woodlands and meadows, with over 11,000 types of plants, and more fountains than any other garden in the US. Visit the Longwood Gardens website for their events lineup. This marks the ninth year the TGPP display has been showcased at this breathtaking garden spot. Be sure to put this must-see location on your road trip agenda this fall!