Tart-y to the party

Occasionally (very occasionally) you might be driving down a country road, minding your own business when a roadside stand at the end of a driveway catches your attention with just five cut-out letters - T.A.R.T.S. Just west of Belgrave on Belgrave Road, sits the adorable Tart Shack, brainchild and weekend business of Kerri Coxon. When the pandemic struck, Coxon’s family lost one of their favourite weekend pastimes. They loved to travel the area to different bakeries on a Saturday morning to pick up pastries and goodies, from Bayfield to Goderich and beyond. Once the lockdowns hindered these sweet adventures, she decided to start baking at home. Eventually her husband Andy was so impressed with her creations, he suggested that she should sell them. He helped her get the building ready and she

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