05/06/2026
Fort Dodge,
When I started The Chaotic Crumb in March, I had no idea what would happen. I just knew I loved making bread, and I hoped maybe a few of you would love eating it.
You showed up. You sold out every bread launch. You believed in me. You trusted me to put food on your table for your family.
So this part is hard to write: we’re moving. Trever’s career is taking our family to the Muscatine/Davenport area, and it’s all happening so fast. We just recently found out and are expected to move in the next 2 weeks.
I had every intention of scheduling one more bake. A real goodbye drop. A chance for you to have fresh bread one last time, and a chance for me to say thank you. But unfortunately, there’s just not enough time with everything going on. I’m so sorry because you deserved a proper send-off, and I wish I could give it to you.
Here’s what I can promise: The Chaotic Crumb is coming with me. Same name, same bread — just a new zip code. It will take some time to get the oven going again while I focus on getting settled in our new home. But a relaunch in Muscatine is coming.
If you want to help carry Fort Dodge with me into this next chapter, here are two things that would mean the world to me -
Leave a review on my page. Your words become the first thing strangers in Muscatine see when they find me — and there’s no one I’d rather be introduced by than you.
And if you know someone in the Muscatine, Davenport, or Quad Cities area who loves real bread, send them my way.
Thank you for being my first yes. Thank you to Rise, who gave me a community before I had a business. Thank you for the DMs, the repeat orders, the pictures of the half-eaten slice, the “we ate half the loaf on the way home” texts. I’ll carry every bit of it with me.
This isn’t the goodbye I wanted to write. But please know — you didn’t just buy bread from me. You made me believe in myself. And I truly can’t say thank you enough. 🤍
-Erica
