Four years ago, Marj Nisly had an idea about how to make a little more income for her young family.
One day, her girls asked if they could sell lemonade from the family driveway. That made Marj think, why not sell other goods?
She liked baking, and she always made cookies and rolls for her children. So, this mother of three decided to cook up some donuts and cinnamon rolls and sell them from her home. She named her business The Farmstead Pastries.
Friends and family asked her to keep baking. They looked forward to the every other Friday treat.
Marj said it is hard to believe she has continued this "home-based" business for so long.
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Family bonds
Marj had her doughnut recipe down pat, but she asked her mother, Yvetta Wickey, for her cinnamon roll one.
"It's a recipe I've used for years and years," Yvetta said. "The first time I made them they turned out hard as a rock, but I kept trying."
Yvetta showed Marg how to make her tried and true rolls. There was not a recipe card because she does not use exact measurements. She is always eyeballing and feeling for consistency.
When Marj wanted to expand to fry pies, once again, she asked her mother for advice.
"I had tried and I was failing," Marj said.
The two women got together in Marj's back baking room and crafted the pies over and over again, trying out fillings. They asked Marj's children and her husband, Nate, to taste test.
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"We worked until we had it the way we wanted," Yvetta said.
Eventually, they came up with blackberry, strawberry, peach, and chocolate fillings. In addition, they added cream cheese to some of the fruit flavors to make a new flavor, like raspberry-cream fry pie.
All their pies are made from scratch, including their fillings. When in season, they will use fresh fruit to make the filling.
Jana, 14, has started making doughnut knots, standing alongside her mother and grandmother. Usually, Yvetta rolls and Marj fills and fries the pies. The two women usually make up 70 pies every other Thursday and then sell on the following Friday.
Because both women are continually inventing, they try to make the process more efficient.
"You have to come up with ideas to make things easier," Marj said. "I always said there's got to be a faster way. There usually is."
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Work schedule
Because they only sell their baked goods every other week, the two women get together on Wednesday's and Thursday's to bake their goods. Marj is up by 4:15 a.m, and Yvetta arrives by 7 a.m.
On every other Friday morning, Marj's husband, Nate, gets in the act. He fries the doughnuts and donut holes, making sure each batch is freshly fried, while Marj continues to refill the baked goods and make and bake cinnamon rolls.
They start selling at 6 a.m. and continue until they run out of product — no later than 2 p.m. This Friday, Marj, Jana and Yvetta will have their home baked goods ready to be grabbed up at Farmstead Pastries at 5307 South Dean Road in Hutchinson.
"It's unpredictable when we close down," Marj said. "Everything sells. I feel quite blessed."
The Farmstead Pastries can be reached at 620-727-5368.
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