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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

Tiny Bread Box (Classic)

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

A couple created what is perhaps the cutest and most filling micro-store to pop up during the pandemic. But to find it, you’ll have to trek through rural Vermont and look for the phone-booth sized box filled with baked goods.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You are in the Vermont countryside.

0:05.0

You are taking a stroll through miles of rolling green hills.

0:10.0

There are cows grazing and mooing around you.

0:14.0

You are alone.

0:16.0

There's not another person in sight.

0:18.0

But as you continue your stroll, you see something strange in the distance.

0:22.0

It's a large rectangular box. It's not big enough to be a house. And as you get closer, you see that

0:28.8

it's made out of cherry wood. It's got a glass door. It's odd, you think. What is this beautiful box

0:35.1

doing out here in the middle of nowhere? You press your face against the

0:39.3

glass and you see it. Dozens and dozens of delicious baked goods. I'm Dylan Theris and this is

0:51.6

Atlas Vipskira, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible, and wondrous places.

0:57.5

Today, we visit Vernon, Vermont.

0:59.3

We are hidden in a rural community is a tiny box filled with incredible bread.

1:06.4

More after this. This remote breadbox in rural Vermont is the brainchild of Natalia Mijome and her husband Greg.

1:40.8

They're something of a nomadic couple.

1:42.9

They've lived in a handful of places since meeting,

1:46.0

but they've never really felt a strong connection to anywhere they lived. I think just like

1:50.4

being a little bit more isolated was something we were looking for, just like generally

1:56.1

less interactions with people every day. We're not the most social people. So we kind of enjoy just being out on our land.

2:03.6

Then in 2019, Greg got a job in New England,

2:07.6

and they found this little piece of remote paradise.

2:11.6

It's hard to deny how beautiful Vermont is,

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