Megan Richter enjoys offering a variety of homemade items.

Megan Richter offers handmade goodness for your home, one small batch at a time.

By Rich Wicks | Guthrie Center Times, February 2026

Infused olive oils are in a variety of flavors.

If the thought of fresh-baked sourdough bread dipped in flavored oils sounds tasty, then Mama’s House Market is definitely worth a try. The motto of Mama’s House Market in Adair is “Offering wholesome ingredients for your family.” That explains the personal philosophy of owner Megan Richter, as well as the philosophy she brings to the products she makes and sells.

Richter explained how Mama’s House Market came about. 

“It started last spring, in April. I had been in the corporate world for 25 years, and I had the opportunity to stay home and help with the bar,” she said.

Richter and her husband, Tony, own and operate The Blue Goose bar in Adair, but she soon found that she needed something more to keep herself busy.

“I was talking to my cousin about how to make a sourdough starter, and somebody overheard me, and they asked if I could bake some for them. So, that led to me starting to make sourdough bread to sell,” Richter said. “Mama’s House Market came about as an extra outlet for me. I don’t sit still well.”

Richter explained that she enjoys spending time with her grandchildren, and one of them always called her “Mama,” so that’s where the business name came from.

Granola is hearty and healthy.

Sourdough bread loaves and infused oils for bread-dipping are Richter’s best sellers, but she offers a variety of items.

“It’s the basic sourdough loaves with several inclusion options. There’s fruit, cheese, chocolate, marshmallows, that kind of stuff,” Richter said. “I also do dinner rolls and sometimes bread bowls. Apart from sourdough, I also do infused olive oils, seasoned salts, flavored sugars. I also offer nourishing goat milk soap, cocktail kits, fresh dryer ball sprays and room sprays, and effective natural cleaners — simple, toxin-free essentials for your home. I try to keep it interesting. I also have Heaton honey products available.”

Richter adjusts her offerings based on what customers like. For example, she previously offered vanilla extract but found that few people bought it, so it was dropped.

She says the Mama’s House Market page on Facebook is the best place for anyone interested in seeing her products and/or putting in an order. A website is currently in the works as well.

Having learned the process of making sourdough, Richter now finds it is not difficult, just time-consuming.

Sourdough loaves are a challenge to resist.

“What a lot of people don’t understand about sourdough is it’s a four-day process. You feed the starter one day, you make the dough the next day, and on day four, you bake,” Richter said. 

Throughout the year, Richter sets up at various farmers markets and similar events in the area to sell her products.

Richter has no plans to mass-produce her items. She says she enjoys focusing on quality rather than quantity.

“Everything I make is intentionally curated, minimally processed and rooted in quality, flavor and function,” she said. “I’m bringing handmade goodness to your home, one small batch at a time.”

When asked which of her offerings is most surprising to customers, Richter said the answer is simple.

“A lot of people don’t know that I do anything other than bread,” she said.

By Rich Wicks | Times Vedette

The Guthrie County Board of Supervisors met in regular session Feb. 24. No citizens addressed the supervisors during the Public Comments portion of the meeting.

County Auditor Dani Fink shared information she learned regarding the Bagley Public Library.

“I had a member of the Bagley Library reach out to me this morning and she okayed for me to share this with you guys,” Fink said. “She said that the city of Bagley has deemed the library building unsafe, changed the lock on the door, and at their noon meeting tomorrow will allow them to go in and remove any of their personal items, turn in any keys, and will take over any business the library needs to conduct and will start selling off the contents of the library at their discretion.”

Fink added that library staff asked to meet with Supervisor Brian Johnson and herself.

“Dani, they have a meeting at 5 o’clock tomorrow night. I’m going to go to that,” Supervisor Brian Johnson said. “They say the foundation is bad on the building, and it’s unsafe to go into. I can’t think of another place to go. I think it’s incredibly sad.”

In other news, a bid opening was held regarding Project LFM-P28(2)-7X-39, which is the Wagon Road project between Panora and Stuart. County Engineer Josh Sebern opened and read the bid amounts. The seven bids ranged from approximately $6 million to $7.5 million.

“We will take these documents, compile all the information and propose award of contract next week,” Sebern said.

“I’m glad to see that many bids come in and are very comparable,” Supervisor JD Kuster said.

The supervisors heard an update on improvement and repair projects at the county fairgrounds and the fiscal year 2027 funding request.

The supervisors also held a budget workshop discussion.

The supervisors meet regularly on Tuesdays at 9 a.m. The public is welcome to attend in person at the courthouse or via remote technology. To join remotely, call 323-792-6123, then use meeting code 547029216#