Welcome

Welcome to the Bury & Essen website. This business concept was born about 14 years ago. It literally means “to grow, and to eat.” It started as a food blog highlighting my adventures gardening and creating from the harvest. Over the years, it’s transformed into much more, but the foundational structure remains, which is, sharing with the community what a greater connection to food can do at an individual level, but also a community level— whether that’s if you grow it yourself, or if you support growers/ bakers that are 100% transparent with where their ingredients come from and who have a connection with the farms themselves.

My own personal journey as evolved from one of dis-connect and chronic disease (Crohn’s disease, chronic migraines, chronic fatigue & dysmenorrhea), to slowing down, living a life full of connection to my food, God, self, community and being completely healed (not just remission, but completely healed) from all I was suffering with. It was never about a particular diet, it was ALWAYS about connection to the food in which I was eating.

Now, it’s evolved to a page peppered with personal reflection, fire, and my cottage food creations cooked with wood and ingredients foraged from my farm or purchased from a local farmer.

As a cottage food business, we currently bake on Fridays, operate on a preorder basis and specialize in naturally fermented & naturally leavened (sourdough) breads (sweet and savory), flaky sourdough biscuits, guilt- free cookies, brownies and other naturally sweetened goodies.

Please be sure to follow along and share with friends who dig foods created locally, slowly, and intentionally, that taste as they should.

Pictured are my blessing berries.. I've shared stories about planting them on my personal social media pages. They produced an abundance of berries from June- October and created muffins, hand pies and breakfast buns with them.