The story of Prairie Sky Breads started in 2014 when Travis Gerjets met Zach and Jazmine Schultz.

At that time, Zach and Jazmine were playing music and volunteering as leaders in a non-profit arts collective focused on creating and hosting community events.

Travis was just beginning his first farmers market season. At the very first market, Travis brought only 6 loaves of bread. It took some time, but all the loaves sold that day – and people came back the next week to buy more! And when they came back, they brought their stories: tales of cooking with grandparents and buying bread overseas and recipe ideas. A community started to form, and Prairie Sky Breads had begun.

The Gerjets family (Travis, Brandy, Everett and Barrett) continued to bake bread to an increased demand. Soon PSB was a year-round operation with bread delivery during the winter months, a growing crew of friends and the addition of new menu items – including scones!

By 2017, the business was officially registered with the State of North Dakota and thoughts of a brick-and-mortar bakery location – and a community gathering space! – were starting to be considered. In 2018, this idea for a new bakery location was pitched to the community by means of a crowdfunding campaign. The campaign was successful, and plans moved forward for opening a permanent, community-focused cafe and bakery.

With Travis up to his elbows in dough and bakery work, conversations started with Jazmine and Zach about putting their community organizing and event planning skills to work within the bakery + cafe + community space concept. In 2019, Zach, Jazmine, Travis and Brandy became co-owners of Prairie Sky Breads.

The bakery officially opened its doors in February of 2020 -- which turned out to be a difficult year to start a new business: COVID-19 forced the bakery to close its doors to in-store dining the very next month. However, the community rallied to support the new venture; not only did PSB make it through 2020, but have had the pleasure of hosting concerts, graduation parties, baking classes, community groups, D+D nights, school tours, interns, podcasts, craft classes, business meetings, lunch dates, family gatherings and so much more ever since.

In February 2025, PSB will celebrate 5 years of serving the community of Minot with the best coffee, food and baked goods we can make. We love being here, we love what we do and we are proud to be a part of this Minot community.