NORWICH – When The Cottage Bakery was first created in August 2016 by mother-daughter business partners, Jeanne Harris and Kate Tefft, the two were just feeling the waters to see if the public would be interested in a new bakery in the area.

But it wouldn't be long before The Cottage Bakery found itself right at home in Saturdays in the Park: A new fall harvest market in Norwich's West Park offering a one-stop-shop for locals to pick up locally produced, fall-themed goodies and socialize among one another.

“We consider ourselves very fortunate to be included in the Saturdays in the Park event,” said Harris. “We were just starting out as a bakery and we were trying to find out if there was interest in having a bakery in the area, so when they asked us to participate we were really delighted to be a part of it.”

Harris said it proved to be a wonderful experience––both for the newly created bakery, which established a regular customer base at the market, and for the new market that was slowly becoming a staple on Saturday mornings in Norwich.