About Us
Your Northern Colorado Local Food Resource
Our Mission Is To:
Do our part to support a healthy local food shed through utilizing regional and organic sources to create our bakery products, direct people to local food sources and educate the public about sustainable meat consumption.
Whew, that was a mouthful. But we love real food. We love the folks who grow and raise and produce our food. We love the folks who want to improve their lives, their health and the world we live in. We believe that is done through a vibrant local food system. And….we love baking!!!!
The Pig and the Plow shows our love of these things when we source ingredients to create our organic baked goods, when we are offering classes through the Northern Colorado Meat Collective and with our curated online farm & ranch directory. You can help our mission by buying direct from your farmers and food producers. That is one of the best ways there is to support them.
About Us
Since 2014 we have been connecting folks to the abundance of delicious local food we have here in Northern Colorado.
In 2017, we wanted to do more to support our local food producers. Our Founder, Erica, also loves to bake. Something she learned from her Polish Grandmother, and many others along the way. Bringing these two passions together resulted in the launch of The Pig and the Plow: Farmstead Baked Goods. Since then we have been bringing our small batch, handcrafted organic baked goods to farmer’s markets, your doorstep during the early pandemic, and now to many local markets, cafes and restaurants.
In 2019 we partnered with The Good Meat Project in Portland, Oregon to start The Northern Colorado Meat Collective, to connect ranchers, butchers and chefs with the general public in an effort to promote and educate slow meat awareness through hands on butchery classes (then Covid struck….yuck…but we’ll be back).
Through the bakery our mission is to create simple, delicious rustic breads, savories and sweets, with organic and local ingredients. We are driven by a passion to connect to our world through food. That is why one day you may stop by the farmers markets and we will have a number of breads and treats that originated in various parts of the world. There is nothing we like more than satisfying a customers longing for home, creating a nostalgic moment, or comforting someone with a delicious bite of one of our baked goods.
Our traditional sourdoughs are naturally leavened with our starter “Maude”. They are simply organic flour, water and sea salt, and any number of add in’s. We use whole and heritage grains as much as possible to maximize flavor and keep all the good stuff in. In January 2021 we connected with Moxie Bread Co’s Flour Studio. Since then we are using Colorado grown and milled whole wheat Turkey Red, Rye Flour, and several heritage grains that are the base for our gluten pastries. When we aren’t using single grains for our gluten friendly pastries, we use our house blend whole grain mix. No starches or fillers, just true whole grain goodness. We believe in using real food, like organic butter, real vanilla, and seasonal fruits, vegetables, and herbs, many grown by our friends in Northern Colorado.
We regularly source ingredients from The Flour Studio at Moxie Feed & Seed in Boulder (local flour milling), Jodar Farms, WellFed Farmstead, Garden Sweet Farms, Native Hill, Folks Farm and Seed, Five Freedoms Dairy, Ela Family Farms, Rancho Duranzo, Hazel Dell, and local organic distributor Golden Organics to name a few, as well as our own herb garden. Our sweets are simple, subtle and kissed lightly with organic sugar, non-gmo brown sugar, organic maple syrup or Colorado honey to compliment the fruit, spices and doughs, rather than overpower them. We want the ingredients to shine, not the sugar.
Hope to see you soon!
