Little Bird Bakery & Apothecary was created out of love for family and a freakish passion for creating superior quality organic baked goods.
Aliza Wiseman (“Birdie”) and her daughter, Sterling G. Wiseman, are currently the chief cooks and bottle washers of this organic bakery startup that “pops up” each week at farmer’s markets located in Nashville (Richland Park Farmer’s Market) and College Grove/Arrington (Arrington Farmer’s Market at Delvin Farms Store), Tennessee.
Sterling and Aliza consider their popup organic bakery a community “kitchen” experience, as they actively invite passers-by to come in and join in the fun of taste tests and, inevitably, meeting up with their “new relatives” in their community. If you happen along, don’t be surprised if one of these fun ladies opens up a box of something delicious and invites you over while declaring, “We’re Jewish and Sicilian! You either come into the kitchen and taste test or…we give you a guilt trip!” 😀
Most people quickly join in the playful enjoyment, with faces lighting up at the exquisite pleasure of one taste after another. Often, the responses are immediate and clients come back, bringing friends and loved ones. Sometimes, unexpected praise comes along after market is over or at some later market date. For example, Katelyn (we’ll use her real name :-D), a now formerly-pregnant client who kept returning and making a “beeline” for Little Bird Bakery & Apothecary’s thumbprint cookies, arrived with her new baby in tow and, as excited as she was to show off her newborn son, she became ecstatic while scrolling through what seemed like a thousand images on her phone, before landing on one and vigorously pointing, “LOOK!!! FIRST FOOD AFTER GIVING BIRTH!!” There she was, pictured in the hospital, indulging in these cookies many customers simply refer to as “crack.” If that’s not high praise, what is? You can find other wonderful words and stories people have spontaneously shared over on the “testimonials” page.
Little Bird Bakery & Apothecary is home to gorgeous organic sourdough, traditional challah bread, authentic Sicilian pasta and a variety of organic baked goods that are all packaged so as to make each one absolutely gift-worthy (be it for yourself or someone else). As these ladies are fond of saying, “If you’ve tasted one thing, then you know the quality of everything on the table – and everything you taste should bring an experience – if it doesn’t, then it doesn’t make it to the table!”
The founders of Little Bird Bakery & Apothecary are passionate – some say freakishly so – about the quality of their goods and always, when asked, “What makes your baked goods soooo good,” the only reply these ladies have to offer is the simple truth, “The secret ingredient is always love.”
