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Ashley - Life, Bread & Balance Southern Storyteller and Digital creator sharing elevated at-home food experiences — caviar, seafood & lifestyle. Small business owner documenting the journey.

I’m Ashley — a sourdough microbakery owner and full-time creator sharing easy bakes, farm stand life, small business reality, motherhood, and faith for the everyday woman. If you love Southern storytelling, cozy baking, and honest behind-the-scenes of entrepreneurship, this page is for you.

19/08/2026

My girl Shannon decided to absolutely BLESS me with the most epic box 😭🌿

If you watch Zero-Proof Happy Hour, you already know I use her creations ALL the time. Let’s see what she sent me 👀

Thank you Shannon Marie Parrish 💚

18/08/2026

I decided to try something new today and then immediately took three preteens to a trampoline park.

Because apparently I enjoy conducting experiments under the most chaotic conditions possible. 😂

Here’s how that experience went + my completely unaffiliated review.

17/08/2026

The “vegetables” have officially done their job. 🍯🌿😂 Part 2 of my homemade infused honey — finishing the infusion, straining everything out and showing you how the final batch turned out.

And yes, you can make infused honey with all kinds of herbs. Mine just happen to be a little more… special.

14/08/2026

Farm Stand Challenge update from inside the stand! Carissa said stop getting caught up trying to make everything perfect and JUST GET IT DONE — so that’s what we’ve been doing. We’re implementing what we’re learning, making changes as we go, and seeing just how far we can grow this little farm stand. 🤎

We’re in Picayune, Mississippi, about 20 minutes north of Slidell, and pre-orders are open every Saturday through Wednesday for the following weekend pickup.

If you want to join the challenge, you can grab the Against the Grain Farm Stand Guide too — or do something completely free and share this with somebody who would love to support a local sourdough farm stand. 🥖

14/08/2026

Making homemade infused honey with a few of my favorite “vegetables.” 🍯🌿 This accidentally turned into a two-parter, so here’s Part 1.

13/08/2026

Mini Kaluga Queen on a salted butter bagel with seasonal spring butter… because apparently this is what we’re calling breakfast now. 😂🥯✨

We taste-tested the caviar, talked about why I love , AND I managed to slice my finger because being a baker is apparently a contact sport. At this point deserves hazard pay for continually fixing the tattoos I burn and beat to hell in the bakery.

12/08/2026

The internet is a weird little place because somehow my love of sardines keeps introducing me to my kind of people. 😂🐟

I connected with the woman behind Root Avenue over our shared love of skin, fish and all things sardines, and after following along with each other for a while, my friend-in-my-head decided to send me a box of her products. 🥹

So obviously we’re opening everything together. Let’s see what she sent me!

11/08/2026

Get you some good friends. Seriously. 🥹🤎

Life has been pretty damn hard lately, and when I’m just trying to make it through the day, the things I love but don’t have to do are usually the first things to get pushed aside. Decorating my house has been one of them—especially creating a little space for all the fictional books I disappear into when real life gets a little too real.

I bought this bookshelf probably TWO YEARS AGO and promptly put it in a closet and forgot it existed. 😂

Well, Michelle found it.

While I was out running errands and trying to figure out life, this woman put the damn thing together, found my books, and decorated it almost exactly how I would have.

I came upstairs to this.

And maybe it’s “just a bookshelf,” but there is something incredibly special about having a friend who knows you well enough to see something you haven’t had the capacity to do for yourself and just… does it.

My ace boom. My plus-one to damn near everything. And apparently now my interior decorator. 😂🤎

I love you, girl. More than you know.

11/08/2026

Week ONE of the Farm Stand Challenge and simply announcing it helped us DOUBLE our pre-orders and revenue. 🥹 This week I’m implementing the biggest lesson from my call with Carissa: quit getting bogged down trying to make every decision perfectly, start where I am with what I already know, and JUST GET MOVING.

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