BB's Bread

BB's Bread/Marta's Bakery

3936 Crosshaven Drive
Vestavia Hills, AL 35243-5470
(205) 969-2253

BB's Bread started four years ago out of Brenda Bates's, or "BB's," kitchen. For years, Brenda had been making homemade bread for her children. She decided to sell bread when her son, while eating some for breakfast, told her "Mom, this is so good you could sell it," and she decided that he was right. The very next day Brenda, who was an elementary school teacher at the time, approached her principal about selling her bread to the other teachers. "And the rest," she says, "is history!"

Brenda has sold exactly 8,300 loaves of bread to date. She has sold bread at no less than 30 Farmers' Markets throughout Montevallo, Calera, and Helena over the years. She also sells her bread at both of Andy's Vegetable Markets in Hoover and Vestavia. The Piggly Wiggly in Montevallo carries BB's Bread, as do Buck Creek Market in Helena and Marta's Bakery in Cahaba Heights, where BB bakes her bread. She is the proud owner of exactly 166 bread pans, and has baked that many loaves in one night before. "BB" feels her bread business has been an incredible blessing, as well as a way to minister to others. "This opportunity was entirely a God thing," she says. "I used to be a school teacher. Now I'm baking bread."

BB's Bread is absolutely delicious! You can buy a loaf at the Montevallo Farmer's Market for $5.00. I thoroughly recommend the cinnamon-sugar bread; it's the perfect breakfast.

Elizabeth