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.