{"id":86505,"date":"2025-12-08T19:35:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T19:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/86505\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T19:35:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T19:35:06","slug":"wake-me-up-farms-brings-warmth-to-north-fresno-storefront","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/86505\/","title":{"rendered":"Wake Me Up Farms brings warmth to North Fresno Storefront"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1140\" height=\"605\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wake-me-up-farms.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"a woman pointing to a wall art sign that says wake me up farms and features loaves of bread\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"attach_desc\">Wake Me Up Farms Bakery Cafe recently opened at the Piazza del Fiore shopping center in North Fresno under the leadership of founder and CEO Ciara Cerro. Wake Me Up Farms Facebook photo<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tpublished on December 8, 2025 &#8211; 11:08 AM<br \/>Written by <a href=\"https:\/\/thebusinessjournal.com\/byline\/ben-hensley\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Hensley<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What began as a nonprofit during the pandemic took a major step last month, opening a storefront with a mission to make memories within the community and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Wake Me Up Farms Bakery Caf\u00e9 celebrated its grand opening last month in Fresno at 1122 E. Champlain Dr., Suite 101, selling everything from baked sourdough bread and sweet treats to coffee, teas and juices.<\/p>\n<p>Wake Me Up Farms, now located at the Piazza del Fiore shopping center, started as a nonprofit bakery, springing up during the COVID-19 pandemic to support members of the community that were the most heavily impacted, evolving into a pop-up and becoming a staple of the farmers market scene.<\/p>\n<p>Founder and CEO Ciara Cerro, who grew up just miles away from the North Fresno storefront, said the Nov. 25 grand opening represented more than just the opening of a business \u2014 it represented a dream Cerro said has buy-in from the entire team at the bakery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis dream isn\u2019t just mine. It\u2019s become something bigger than anything I could have done on my own and I couldn\u2019t ask for a better team,\u201d she said in a news release. \u201cThese are the people who want to make everyone they meet have a better day because they\u2019ve got the biggest hearts you will ever find.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wake Me Up Farms\u2019 Chief Operating Officer Stephen Buckner echoed those sentiments, inviting guests to come check out the warm atmosphere and \u201cfeeling of community\u201d the store inspires.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur roots started here,\u201d he said. \u201cWe wanted those roots to present themselves to the community so that we could connect to those that we\u2019re serving on a more personal level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In May, <a href=\"https:\/\/thebusinessjournal.com\/start-up-fest-sparks-entrepreneurial-spirit-at-fresno-pacific-university\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Wake Me Up Farms competed in Fresno Pacific University\u2019s Center for Community Transformation<\/a> (CTT) at its second-annual \u201cStart-up Fest.\u201d There it won an Ignite Awards, which highlight small businesses that have shown excellence in leadership and management, a customer centric approach in operation, execution, being flexible, embracing the entrepreneurial spirit and showing passion and resilience.<\/p>\n<p>Wake Me Up Farms worked with Access Plus Capital to help fund their expansion plans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wake Me Up Farms Bakery Caf\u00e9 is open Tuesday through Saturday from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sundays from 6 a.m. to noon.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wake Me Up Farms Bakery Cafe recently opened at the Piazza del Fiore shopping center in North Fresno&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[10276,112,114,113,48580],"class_list":["post-86505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-bakery","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-wake-me-up-farms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}