302. Building a Profitable Business from Home as a Mom: Lessons from a Micro Bakery | Lily of Flour Barn Bakery

Simple Farmhouse Life

Lisa Bass

Home & Garden, Leisure

4.9 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Juggling motherhood and entrepreneurship comes with unique challenges and unique rewards. In this episode with Lily of The Flour Barn, we talk about running a thriving micro bakery while managing a blog, YouTube channel, and teaching schedule. From setting boundaries and avoiding burnout to slowing down and auditing systems for smarter growth, Lily shares the rhythms that keep her business sustainable and her home life prioritized. We cover her weekly workflow, stress-reducing systems, lessons from five years of menu refinement, and when to choose freshly milled whole grains vs. white flour. Whether you’re dreaming of starting a business or simply looking for inspiration to work smarter at home, you’ll love this conversation!

In this episode, we cover:

Managing a full plate as an entrepreneurial mother: running a micro bakery with a blog, YouTube, storefront, and teaching classes
Finding rhythms that allow space for being present in your real life without turning every moment into content
The importance of establishing realistic boundaries that make business sustainable over the long haul
Balancing business growth with your true priorities and how opportunity can sometimes become a burden
The payoff of slowing down to do the deep work– audit systems, strategize well, and make your work easier instead of getting stuck in old ways
Weekly rhythm breakdown for a weekend microbakery: grocery runs, baking classes, dough prep, lamination and proofing days– getting it all done as a mom of littles
Small business systems that reduce stress: online pre-orders, projecting sales, and intentionally slow growth
Lessons learned from five years of refining the menu and workflow for maximum profit (without burning out)
Diving into our philosophies on when to use choose the nutrient density of freshly-milled whole grains vs. when to opt for the effectiveness of white flour
Adjusting all-purpose recipes for whole grains without sacrificing texture or flavor

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0:00.0	With the bakery, I have found a good rhythm for my life. From the beginning, our goal was never to get rich.
0:07.1	You know, it was to create this peaceful life where we could be mothers, present mothers, and also make some money for our families.
0:15.3	So really just finding tasks and processes that bring you joy because it's not necessarily a bad thing to be
0:22.7	busy if you're getting joy from it, but it's just finding like, where's the line?
0:27.5	My name is Lisa, mother of eight and creator of the blog and YouTube channel Farmhouse
0:31.5	on Boone. On this podcast, I like to talk about simplifying your life so you can live out your
0:36.0	priorities. I help you learn how to
0:37.6	cook from scratch and decorate on a budget through this podcast and my courses simple sourdough
0:42.6	in the simple sewing series. I also help people reach their goals from home through my business
0:47.3	course in YouTube Success Academy. I will leave links to these resources in the show notes
0:51.3	and description box below. Now let's get into the show.
1:06.1	Welcome back to the Simple Farmhouse Life podcast. As we try to live a simple life, for some of us, that is doing a business or industry at home. And I had on last year at some point, Lillian Hutchins
1:15.9	of the Flower Barn Bakery. And she shared her experience with starting a successful micro
1:22.1	bakery in her small town. And she's had it for five years now alongside her sister and many other members of the family
1:28.8	have now joined in this business. And I think she has so much wisdom to share as an entrepreneur
1:34.5	and doing that in a smart way, but also in a balanced way that is different from what you see
1:42.9	today in hustle culture where it's always like more
1:45.7	more, more, more, go, go. I think, I mean, a lot of us, I think, have been kind of exposed to the
1:50.1	lives of that over the last couple years. But still, wanting to start a business and being
1:55.9	faced with a lot of, after some success is built up, opportunity, and figuring out how to navigate that,
2:03.6	but still leading a simple home-based life. She has a lot of wisdom to share on that
2:11.1	in her experience for the last five years. So even if you're not interested in starting a
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