Meet Pastry Chef Kristen Farmer Hall of The Essential and Bandit Patisserie. Kristen was able to sit down and talk about her path from having a small bakery to opening a full scale restaurant, and now is starting to combine the two! Check out their new combined location in Pepper Place soon!Follow our podcast: @localisbetterpodcast and check out www.pepperplacemarket.com for a full list of vendors at this week&apos;s market!Music from https://filmmusic.io"Feelin Good" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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All things Essential & Baking Bandit with Kristen Hall!

Meet Pastry Chef Kristen Farmer Hall of The Essential and Bandit Patisserie. Kristen was able to sit down and talk about her path from having a small bakery to opening a full scale restaurant, and now is starting to combine the two! Check out their new combined location in Pepper Place soon!Follow our podcast: @localisbetterpodcast and check out www.pepperplacemarket.com for a full list of vendors at this week's market!Music from https://filmmusic.io"Feelin Good" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Telia Johnson of Telia&apos;s Cake brings all sorts of sweets to the market. Telia still bakes and specializes in a really good chocolate-chocolate cake – which she sells at our Market. She also makes beautiful wedding cakes and is known in the Birmingham area for gorgeous wedding cake designs that are beautiful as well as tasty!Follow our podcast: @localisbetterpodcast and check out www.pepperplacemarket.com for a full list of vendors at this week&apos;s market!Music from https://filmmusic.io"Feelin Good" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Telia Johnson of Telia's Cakes

Telia Johnson of Telia's Cake brings all sorts of sweets to the market. Telia still bakes and specializes in a really good chocolate-chocolate cake – which she sells at our Market. She also makes beautiful wedding cakes and is known in the Birmingham area for gorgeous wedding cake designs that are beautiful as well as tasty!Follow our podcast: @localisbetterpodcast and check out www.pepperplacemarket.com for a full list of vendors at this week's market!Music from https://filmmusic.io"Feelin Good" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

This week&apos;s guest on Local is Better is Jen Ryan from Blueroot Co. Blueroot specializes in clean and healthy eating. Jen grew up on the west coast, and once she and her husband decided to set roots in Birmingham, they started looking for clean and healthy eating options. This desire to eat clean spurred the idea for Blueroot. They are located in Mountain Brook Village right now, with a new storefront coming to PEPPER PLACE soon!Follow our podcast: @localisbetterpodcast and check out www.pepperplacemarket.com for a full list of vendors at this week&apos;s market!Music from https://filmmusic.io"Feelin Good" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Clean Eating & Working Hard ft. Jen Ryan of Blueroot Co.

This week's guest on Local is Better is Jen Ryan from Blueroot Co. Blueroot specializes in clean and healthy eating. Jen grew up on the west coast, and once she and her husband decided to set roots in Birmingham, they started looking for clean and healthy eating options. This desire to eat clean spurred the idea for Blueroot. They are located in Mountain Brook Village right now, with a new storefront coming to PEPPER PLACE soon!Follow our podcast: @localisbetterpodcast and check out www.pepperplacemarket.com for a full list of vendors at this week's market!Music from https://filmmusic.io"Feelin Good" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

This episode of Local Is Better features Jacob Sandlin, of Sandlin Farms, as well as Lisa Beasley, one of the Market Managers here at Pepper Place.Follow our podcast: @localisbetterpodcast and check out www.pepperplacemarket.com for a full list of vendors at this week&apos;s market!Music from https://filmmusic.io"Feelin Good" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Family Farming with Jacob Sandlin & Lisa Beasley

This episode of Local Is Better features Jacob Sandlin, of Sandlin Farms, as well as Lisa Beasley, one of the Market Managers here at Pepper Place.Follow our podcast: @localisbetterpodcast and check out www.pepperplacemarket.com for a full list of vendors at this week's market!Music from https://filmmusic.io"Feelin Good" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Justin Hill from Eastaboga Bee Company joins us on the podcast this week. It is so good to be back! Justin has been bringing honey and honey products to the market for a few years now, and he is raising bees on the same land that his great-grandfather once worked.Follow our podcast: @localisbetterpodcast and check out www.pepperplacemarket.com for a full list of vendors at this week&apos;s market!Music from https://filmmusic.io"Feelin Good" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Beekeeping with Justin Hill from Eastaboga Bee Company

Justin Hill from Eastaboga Bee Company joins us on the podcast this week. It is so good to be back! Justin has been bringing honey and honey products to the market for a few years now, and he is raising bees on the same land that his great-grandfather once worked.Follow our podcast: @localisbetterpodcast and check out www.pepperplacemarket.com for a full list of vendors at this week's market!Music from https://filmmusic.io"Feelin Good" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

A weekly podcast recorded at the Market at Pepper Place in Birmingham, Alabama, "Local Is Better" showcases the best the state has to offer. Alabama farmers, food producers, makers and shoppers are all part of the podcast. Get to know the folks who make the Market the best place to be on Saturday morning!

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