Mamaws Bread & Farm Stand

Planning Commission voted today 6/18 and passed the amendment to allow on premises sales 🥳 next stop City Council where they will then vote in July and then Final vote will take place in August ✨️

Send good vibes yall today the planning commission votes 👀 meeting starts at 5:30pm

🙌 Tomorrow is a BIG day! 🙌

We have 10 dozen cookies heading out to a local manufacturing company, along with a few dozen fried pies. Thank you for supporting local small businesses!

Tomorrow is also the day the Planning Commission votes on the proposed amendment that would allow on-premises sales for home-based businesses.

📍 Oak Ridge Municipal Building
🕠 5:30 PM
🚪 We plan to arrive around 5:15 PM.

If you attend and wish to speak either for or against the amendment, there will be a 3 minute public comment period for each speaker. Please remember to be respectful, regardless of whether you agree or disagree.

If the amendment passes the Planning Commission tomorrow, the next stop is City Council. 👀

No matter what happens, I want to thank everyone who has supported us throughout this journey. Your encouragement, emails, phone calls, and attendance at meetings have meant more than you know.

See y'all tomorrow!

Asking here before I list to marketplace. This is a Danby Designer 4.4cuft mini fridge. Was used in the stand for roughly 6 months. It works perfectly fine no issues asking $200 this is great for a dorm room, garage or whatever you need it for if interested send a message or comment down below.

Hey yall please remember that the stand is still currently closed and will not reopen till the amendment is fully passed through both planning commission and council to which we are projecting an August reopen. Thank you to all who wanf to support the stand in person but right now it is closed. Trust and believe we wish we can open it now but we can not. Soon yall soon 🤗

📣 WHERE WE ARE IN THE PROCESS IMPORTANT UPDATE FOR OAK RIDGE MAKERS, BAKERS & GROWERS

When we started this journey, our goal was simple:
to legally sell the things we make, bake, or grow from our own property.

And today, we can finally say we’re getting that. The amendment that was presented today gives every home-based creator in Oak Ridge the ability to sell items they produce from their property. That is a huge step forward for all of us.

Now, here’s the honest part:
No, we are not getting the roadside stand back yet. And that’s okay. Compromise is part of progress. By showing good operating faith now using our porch or deck instead of a roadside setup we build trust, stability, and a track record the City can look at when we revisit this in a year or two. And we will revisit it!

For now, we have:
• Legal on‑property sales (coming soon)
• Hours of operation from 9AM–9PM (set by existing city guidelines)
• A path forward that benefits EVERY home-based seller in Oak Ridge

Does this work perfectly for everyone? No.
But it opens the door for all of us bakers, canners, growers, crafters, and small home-based entrepreneurs to operate legally and proudly from our homes.

Next week, on June 18th at 5:30pm, the Planning Commission will vote on the amendment. If you support it, that’s wonderful. If you don’t, that’s your choice. Either way, both sides will have the opportunity to speak and be heard at the meeting as to why this should or should not be passed.

What matters most is this:
We set out to protect the right to sell what we make from our own property and we are achieving that. And who knows… a year from now, we may be right back here again, pushing to expand this progress and bring roadside stands into the conversation. But today, we celebrate the step forward we do have.

Oak Ridge, thank you for standing with us.
This is how change happens one step at a time.

The amendment advanced: Next week the planning commissioners vote on the updated language 🗳 if passes we move to city council.

Another meeting closer to change

🔥 TODAY IS THE DAY, OAK RIDGE 🔥

After months of fighting, meetings, shutdowns, confusion, and community voices rising together… the amendment to finally allow on‑premise sales at home based businesses is being presented TODAY to the Oak Ridge Planning Commission.

This is the moment so many of us have been waiting for.

For every baker, grower, crafter, canner, creator, and dreamer who has ever tried to build something small and honest from their home this amendment is a turning point.

For Mamaw’s Bread & Farm Stand, this is personal.
We opened our little stand with nothing but heart, heritage, and a desire to share good food with good people. Then we were told that selling homemade bread, cookies, pickles, and jellies from our own yard the same way generations before us did was not allowed.

We didn’t shut down quietly.
We stood up.
We spoke out.
And YOU stood with us.

And because of that, today the city is officially considering a change that would allow on premise sales of items made at home, a change that could reopen our stand and open the door for countless others.

This isn’t just policy.
This is livelihood.
This is heritage.
This is the right to build something small and beautiful in the place you call home.

The Planning Commission hears it today.
The vote is June 18.
And the future of home based makers in Oak Ridge is on the line.

Thank you for every message, every signature, every cookie bought, every word of encouragement.
We’re not done but today, we move forward.

Oak Ridge, let’s make history.