{"id":185429,"date":"2026-04-04T12:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T12:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/185429\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T12:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T12:56:08","slug":"pierce-co-bread-shed-offers-sourdough-nyc-style-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/185429\/","title":{"rendered":"Pierce Co. \u2018bread shed\u2019 offers sourdough, NYC-style cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"

People have been telling Alex Howe to start her own bakery for years.<\/p>\n

She started young, learning with her mom in the kitchen and continuing to bake throughout college. As an undergrad, she hosted bake sales to help with fundraisers and they\u2019d always sell out, she said.<\/p>\n

Salty Fox Bakery was born after the former science teacher listened to what friends and family were saying.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne night at a family birthday, they were all chanting, \u2018bakery, bakery,\u2019 and I was like, \u2018all right, it\u2019s time,\u2019\u201d Howe recalled.<\/p>\n

Located inside what Howe described as a \u201ccozy, woodsy Nordic-style bread shed\u201d on Fox Island, Salty Fox Bakery opens for orders this Saturday and Sunday. The micro-bakery is located at 488 Third Ave. and can be a little hard to find. Look for a black shed with a turquoise door, she said.<\/p>\n

\"Lifelong Lifelong baker Alex Howe and her husband Zach Howe built an A-frame shed on Fox Island, Wash. to house a cottage bakery. Salty Fox Bakery Courtesy <\/p>\n

The self-serve bakery isn\u2019t a brick-and-mortar store but rather a \u201cmicro-bakery\u201d where customers can pre-order items online and pick them up at the shed, or walk up and take a look at what\u2019s on display, she said. Lucky Seven Goods<\/a> is another micro-bakery with a similar concept at 14405 35th Ave. NW, north of Gig Harbor.<\/p>\n

Alex and her husband, Zach Howe, built the A-frame shed from the ground up using plans they found online. She said she was inspired by similar micro-bakeries in eastern Washington and learned that she could get her own cottage food permit<\/a> to sell goods baked in her own home kitchen. She previously taught for 10 years at Harbor Heights Elementary School.<\/p>\n

The menu at Salty Fox Bakery will change from month to month, but Howe plans to offer items such as a sourdough sandwich loaf, cinnamon rolls, New York-style chocolate cookies and tea cakes in two flavors: lemon vanilla and lemon lychee lavender. The cottage bakery will specialize in \u201cwholesome sourdough baked goods,\u201d according to the website. Customers will be able to check the business\u2019s social media and website for weekly menu updates, Howe said.<\/p>\n

\"Salty Salty Fox Bakery, a micro-bakery in a quaint shed on Fox Island, Wash. opens Saturday, April 4, 2026. The cottage bakery will specialize in sourdough baked goods and sell cookies, pies, bagels and more. Salty Fox Bakery Courtesy <\/p>\n

Howe designs most of her own recipes. She looks forward to offering sourdough cookies, which are \u201cvery fluffy and have a nice complex flavor,\u201d sourdough New York-style bagels and mini pies using her grandmother\u2019s blackberry pie recipe, she said.<\/p>\n

The bakery\u2019s name comes from her signature move \u2014 finishing treats with a sprinkle of flaky sea salt, she said.<\/p>\n

Having grown up on Fox Island, Howe said she\u2019s excited to meet more of her neighbors through the bakery stand. The island is \u201csuch a wonderful small rural community,\u201d she wrote in a message. \u201cOnce you\u2019re \u2018on island,\u2019 you really don\u2019t want to leave.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Salty Salty Fox Bakery owner Alex Howe said her signature move is a sprinkle of flaky sea salt, hence the name of her new micro-bakery, she said. Salty Fox Bakery Courtesy <\/p>\n

Besides baked goods, Howe is also thinking of offering other items at the shed, including fresh produce, flowers and pieces of art, similar to a farm stand. Visitors will also be able to leave seeds or pick up seeds from a free seed box at the site, a way to share her love for gardening with the community, she said.<\/p>\n

Customers can pre-order via the micro-bakery\u2019s website<\/a> or the Bakesy site or app<\/a> to pick up goods at the shed on Saturdays and Sundays.<\/p>\n


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Julia Park<\/a><\/p>\n

The News Tribune<\/p>\n

Julia Park is the Gig Harbor reporter at The News Tribune and writes stories about Gig Harbor, Key Peninsula, Fox Island and other areas across the Tacoma Narrows. She started as a news intern in summer 2024 after graduating from the University of Washington, where she wrote for her student paper, The Daily, freelanced for the South Seattle Emerald and interned at Cascade PBS News (formerly Crosscut).\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People have been telling Alex Howe to start her own bakery for years. She started young, learning with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":{"0":"post-185429","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-ny","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-nyc-headlines","12":"tag-nyc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}