Nest & Nourish Homestead

11/06/2025

Freshly baked sourdough bagels, right from our kitchen! 🥯✨

We’ve been testing our sourdough starter, and these golden beauties came out soft, chewy, and full of that perfect sourdough flavor. After some love (and plenty of taste testing!), we’re excited to announce that we’ll start taking orders November 19th!

Whether you love yours toasted with butter, cream cheese, or a touch of homemade jelly, these will make the perfect cozy morning treat.

Stay tuned for flavors, prices, and order details — and thank you for supporting our little homestead bakery! 💛

11/02/2025

🌾✨ New Menu Alert from The Nest & Nourish Homestead! ✨🌾

Friends, I’m so excited to share our updated menu — filled with your favorite cozy, homemade goods made fresh from our homestead kitchen. From sourdough loaves and cinnamon rolls to bagels, cookies, and farm-fresh breads, each item is baked with love, faith, and nourishment in mind. 🍞💛

🗓 Orders open in 2 weeks!
To help keep things organized and fresh, payment will now be due at the time of your order.

📦 We’re open every weekend to take orders and closed Monday through Friday for baking and pick-up preparations.

Thank you for continuing to support our family’s homestead and small business. Your love and encouragement keep this dream rising—just like our sourdough. 🕊

Take a peek at our new menu below and start planning your next order!

06/30/2025

✨ Fresh from the Hearth ✨

There’s something sacred about a well-fed sourdough starter and the hands that knead with intention. These two golden loaves came out of the oven this morning — rustic, nourishing, and made with patience and prayer. 🕊️🍞

Right now at The Nest and Nourish Homestead, we’re offering classic sourdough loaves and soft, homemade sandwich bread as we continue refining our full menu to serve you better. Thank you for walking this journey with us — your support means the world as we build this simple, faith-filled business from the ground up.

Each loaf is handcrafted with care, using quality ingredients and old-fashioned methods — no shortcuts, just honest, wholesome bread for your family table.

💛 Now accepting orders for next week!
📍Pickup in [Mount Pleasant ,TX]
📩 DM to reserve your loaf
💵 Payment is due at the time of placing your order

06/24/2025

🌿🐣 New Life on the Homestead 🐣🌿
We’ve welcomed a few new feathered friends to Nest & Nourish Homestead, and our hearts are just as full as the brooder! These little chicks are already full of curiosity, charm, and the sweetest little chirps.

Every tiny peep and fluffy wing reminds us of God’s beautiful design — that new beginnings come quietly, often tucked under tiny feathers and warm shavings. 🕊️✨

We’re so grateful for the rhythm of slow living, the joy of raising our food with intention, and the opportunity to share these moments with you — our extended homestead family. These little ones will soon be part of our flock, bringing fresh eggs and lots of personality to the farm.

Here’s to growth, grace, and fluffy beginnings. 💛

06/19/2025

🥚✨ Farm Fresh Eggs Coming Soon! ✨🥚

Something exciting is happening here at the homestead… our sweet hens are growing, and in just a few months, we’ll be gathering our very own farm fresh eggs straight from the backyard coop! 🐓🌾

These golden-yolked beauties will soon be a key ingredient in many of our homemade goodies — from our soft sandwich loaves to cinnamon rolls, cookies, and more. There’s something truly special about baking with eggs gathered with love, right from our little homestead.

It’s just another way we’re staying rooted in what matters: faith, family, and wholesome, homegrown nourishment. We can’t wait to share the goodness with you. 🧺💛

Stay tuned for updates (and maybe some chicken pictures too 😉)!

With love,
Mary
Nest and Nourish Homestead

06/19/2025

🌿 Exciting Changes Coming Soon 🌿

To my wonderful customers and friends,

Over the past few months we have made a few life changes. As many of you know, my heart behind this business has always been more than just baking. It’s about home, nourishment, faith, and building a life rooted in the simple and the sacred.

With that in mind, I’m excited to share that in the coming months, this space will be undergoing a few beautiful changes — including a new name: Nest and Nourish Homestead.

This name better reflects the heart of what I do — offering homemade, wholesome goods from our homestead while nurturing faith, family, and tradition. Along with the name change, you’ll notice some new offerings (like jams and preserves 🍓), updated menu, and a cozy new look to match the spirit of this journey.

Everything you’ve come to love — the sourdough, cinnamon rolls, cookies, and more — isn’t going anywhere. If anything, this is just the beginning of something even richer and more meaningful.

Thank you for being part of this story. I can’t wait to continue growing and sharing it with you. 🌾

With gratitude,
Mary Holley
Nest and Nourish Homestead

06/01/2025

There have been a few changes happening in the cottage food law for home bakers. Adjustments to labels and we will have to register with DSHS. We will start to roll out the new menu in the middle of August with our fall flavors. During that time our chickens will start laying FARM FRESH EGGS! Lots of new and exciting things coming!

The Texas Governor has just signed SB 541 into law, massively expanding opportunities for small farmers and individuals to make and sell home-produced foods!

The new law, effective September 1, will allow Texans to sell almost any kind of food they make in their home kitchen directly to consumers within our state. This includes all kinds of temperature-sensitive foods, like cheesecakes, vegetarian casseroles, cut fruits and vegetables, frozen produce, and more. The only exceptions are meat, poultry, seafood, low-acid canned goods, hemp/CBD products, raw milk products, and ices/frozen desserts.

The new law will also allow the sale of non-refrigerated homemade foods through third-party vendors for the first time. So those homemade baked goods, jams, pickles, dried spices and herbs, and more can be sold through local co-ops, niche grocers, and cafes!!

SB 541 also makes numerous other smaller positive changes.
💰 It triples the annual sales cap to $150,000 and indexes it for inflation.
📑 It allows cottage food producers to register with DSHS instead of putting their home address on the label.
🍪 It creates simple, common-sense standards for providing samples to potential customers without permits.
💯 And it very explicitly clarifies that the local health departments cannot require permits or charge fees of cottage food producers.

This is the biggest expansion of the cottage food law we've ever had, and it puts Texas back at the forefront of the Food Freedom movement.

THANK YOU to Senator Lois Kolkhorst and Representative Lacey Hull for championing this important bill. We also want to recognize Kelley Masters at Homemade Texas for her tireless efforts in support of cottage food producers in our state.

This new law opens up significant opportunities for farmers and small food businesses across our state working to rebuild local food systems!

05/08/2025

Our starter is finally ready! I decided to bake some sourdough bagels for breakfast tomorrow. My husband and boys love them.

I will be accepting limited amount of orders in the coming weeks. I do need to adjust my menu so please be patient. I can’t wait to start baking again.

If you know anyone who does graphic designs and labels please tag them in this post. I can’t wait until we are up and running again.

04/19/2025

Fresh from the oven & made with love!
There’s nothing quite like the smell of homemade bread filling the kitchen—except maybe slicing into a warm loaf and enjoying it with your favorite butter or jam.

These golden beauties are fresh-baked, soft, and ready to bring comfort to your table.
Perfect for sandwiches, toast, or simply enjoying on their own.