After 40 Years, It's Time to Be Grandpa.

I started this bakery outside Rhinebeck, New York, in 1982. For 42 years, I've baked sourdough at four in the morning. Same starter, same oven, same hands.

My customers used to ask about the beeswax bags I kept my own bread in — the ones my grandmother made. So I started sewing a few. Then a few more.

I'm 70 now. My grandkids are growing up. The bakery closes this year.

One last batch. When they're gone, they're gone.

— Hollis

My Final Pieces

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What 2,387+ Home Bakers Are Saying

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    Way Better Than The Amazon Versions

    "I'd been burned by an Amazon beeswax bag that flaked after one rinse. This bag tells you everything the moment you pick it up. Properly made, heavy, real beeswax smell. My partner thought I was mad spending the money. Then she stopped throwing bread out."

    Eleanor W.

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    It Pays For Itself

    "I was on the fence about the price. But the math works — we used to throw away half a loaf every week. That's stopped. I bake Saturday, eat the last slice Friday, still soft."

    Linda B.

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    Shipping Was Slow But Worth It

    "Took longer to arrive than expected. That aside, it does exactly what's promised — I'm still cutting good slices five days after baking. My only regret is not grabbing a second one when the BOGO was on. Don't make my mistake."

    Sarah K.

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    Bought Two Before The Retirement

    ''Forty years in this kitchen and I've never had a bread storage thing actually work. Read about the baker retiring and bought two on the spot — one for me, one for my daughter. Bittersweet he's stopping. Glad I got in before the end."

    Patricia L.

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    Finally Something That Works For Gluten-Free Bread

    "Gluten-free bread is the worst for going stale, usually rock-hard by day two. I baked a GF sourdough on Monday and was eating soft slices on Friday. That's never happened in eight years of GF baking. My daughter has coeliac and we waste so much expensive flour. This bag is paying for itself."

    Peter K.

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A Note From Cathy

Hollis isn't much of a writer, so he asked me to put something here.

The shop's been closed for about three weeks now. He still wakes up at 3:30 in the morning out of habit — I don't think that's going away any time soon. He can't sit still. Never could.

So he's been finishing the last of the bags at our kitchen table in the evenings. A few a night. He says it gives him something to do with his hands.

When they're gone, they're gone.

Thank you for keeping him busy all these years.

— Cathy