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Specialties
Positively 3rd Street Bakery is a worker owned co-op that is determined to offer healthy, and affordable goods to its customers. We have a strong focus on local and organic ingredients, and make a wide variety of wholesome breads, cookies, granola, pizza crusts, muffins and bars.
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History
Established in 1982.
The unassuming two story store/flat that houses Positively 3rd St Bakery was constructed in 1913. The earliest tenant that we know of was a family grocery store, Bertulla’s, that operated at least through the 1950s. We always appreciate hearing stories from people that grew up in the neighborhood.
The building housed a succession of bakeries from the 1970s through 1982, when several workers banded together to buy out their management and start a worker co-op. Cooperative enterprise is in NE Minnesota is nothing new, but the new bakery brought a tradition with it’s roots in Scandanavia into the present.
The name «Positively 3rd St. Bakery» was an inventive conjunction of Dylan lore (predating «Bob Dylan Way» by a quarter-century!) and geography. The financing was largely DIY-that founding generation worked at minimal wages to cover start-up costs. The model was whole-grain baking at affordable prices-a business niche that the bakery is happy to inhabit to today.