You are in the Vermont countryside. You are taking a stroll through miles of

rolling green hills. There are cows grazing and mooing around you. You are alone. There's not another person in sight. But as you continue your stroll, you see something strange in the distance. It's a large rectangular box.

It's not big enough to be a house.

And as you get closer, you see that it's made out of Cherrywood.

It's got a glass door. It's odd. You think what is this beautiful box doing out here in the middle of nowhere?

You press your face against the glass and you see it.

Dozens and dozens of delicious baked goods.

I'm Dylan Thurris and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible, and wondrous places. Today we visit Vernon, Vermont, where hidden in a rural community is a tiny box filled with incredible bread.

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

They're something of a nomadic couple. They've lived in a handful of places since meeting, but they've never really felt a strong connection to anywhere they lived.

I think just like being a little bit more isolated was something we were looking for.

Just like generally less interactions with people every day were not the most social people.

So we kind of enjoy just being out on our land.

Then in 2019, Greg got a job in New England and they found this little piece of remote

paradise. It's hard to deny how beautiful Vermont is so we

I think just had an attraction and really wanted to to find a way to live here and

we were able to do that. But something was still missing. For most of her adult life,

Natalia really struggled to find work that excited her. She went to graduate

school for a biology degree, but after a difficult period she ended up dropping out.

So I kind of had a long list of random jobs and tried everything out.

And kind of in the end, I think what I learned is I just I enjoy

working for myself I think I've always been kind of unhappy with the boss and then a

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