05/28/2026
"What's the deal with your name? Little Rye? Where's the rye bread?"
It's been a minute since our name change to Little Rye Bakehouse, and maybe a nice refresher is in order, because yeah whole grain is in the name, and it's in the game, too.
Little Rye at its core has the hope to bring more local whole grains, fresh and flavorful to your table in forms you may not always associate them with. And though I used to make a lot of rye bread at jobs in the past (and who knows maybe it'll make its way back to our bakery counter someday), the idea behind this tiny bakery is to incorporate more rye (and wheat) into all things baked!
There's a little rye or wheat in all of our recipes (besides the couple gluten-free items) which we mill in-house from grains. We don't sift these grains, meaning you get the entire bran in our products. Health benefits, flavor, freshness and support of our local ecosystem, using these fresh grains is so important to our ethos, and honestly why our products taste so warm, nutty and wholesome.
Even our pie and croissant dough feature whole wheat bran, and is supplemented with all-purpose flour (still fresh and local). And many of our products are almost fully whole rye, like these rye cheddar onion scones or our whole rye brownies.
Flavor has always been my first obsession, which can't be beat while using fresh grains, but also rye in particular is sooo important to our local farming practices, often used as a cover crop, helping to prevent soil erosion and not to mention its incredible climate resistance. It's a great grain for our future, so our goal- use it more!
Also I would be remiss not to mention little rye is also a little wry in it's play on "little guy", cus yeah always the little guy, scraping my way through this weird world of capitalist freaks with absolutely no business finesse, merely doing it for the love of the bake, and feeding the peeps. 😘