A Fresh Start

Your Great Harvest Bread Co. in Chico is a dream come true — our dream! We’ve been milling wheat and making bread for family and friends for many years. Our passion for great tasting, nutritious bread, and our desire to run a community-based business, led us to Great Harvest.

Wade worked as a commercial fisherman for 20 years in Bristol Bay, Alaska, fishing salmon as well as crab fishing in the Bering Sea.  Shelley worked in downtown Seattle with an import / export company shipping containers overseas.  The thought of creating our own niche somewhere other than rainy Seattle was part of our dream.  So we took out an atlas and chose Chico.

Your Chico Great Harvest looks like no other Great Harvest out there. We operate under a “Freedom Franchise.” The “Freedom” part means that we get to run our business in a way that meets our community’s unique needs. The “Franchise” part gives us access to the recipes and processes that GH has continuously improved for over two decades. The result is breads and sweets that will knock your socks off!
   

Chico has been our home for over fifteen years. Several years ago we made the decision to pursue our dream. So, we said good-bye to rainy Seattle, jumped ship and are now up to our elbows in dough. We’re excited to bring this tradition to you, our neighbors and friends.

Thanks for stopping by, we’re glad you came!