The Bend Great Harvest Bread Co. is a franchise, but the local one looks like no other Great Harvest out there. They operate under a “Freedom Franchise.” The “Freedom” part means that they get to run this business in a way that meets the community’s unique needs.

Great Harvest handcrafts bread daily using pure and simple ingredients. Each morning they fresh-grind premium whole wheat (purchased direct from family farms in Montana) in the bakery and blend it with wholesome ingredients, like yeast, salt and honey. The result is real bread that is rich, moist, hearty and nutritious, and which is featured in their rotating menu with different flavors each day of the week. This is also the bread they’ll happily let you sample, and which they use to make their delicious and popular sandwiches. This is a great place to get a delicious, local and special picnic for your adventure, from sandwiches to soups to chips to cookies. One extra bonus for hitting their bakery: they have a parking lot on the south side of the bakery so you can make a quick hit.