Farm to Market is moving to the Crossroads

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• Farm to Market’s trail mix bread is at Dean & Deluca and the Wednesday Waldo Farmers Market.

“There’s a reason that San Francisco became the sourdough capital of the world, and that’s because of the climate,” Farm to Market bread company founder Mark Friend says. “It’s hell for us in August here.”

Bread does indeed prefer a climate more temperate than KC’s volatile weather provides. So in lieu of moving to San Francisco, Farm to Market is doing the next best thing. The company has asked Michel Suas of the San Francisco Baking Institute to help design the layout of its new production plant, at 100 East 20th Street, to streamline the baking process, taking into account Kansas City’s temperature extremes.

The plan right now is for Farm to Market to move from its current Waldo location (216 West 73rd Street) to downtown, possibly as early as late July, before the apex of this summer.