THE GOOD crust GETS GOOD PRESS.

MAINEBIZ | MARCH 12, 2024

The Good Crust, Tiller & Rye and Belle Cove among businesses honored by SBA

From craft jewelry to seafood exports and frozen pizza dough, the winners of this year’s U.S. Small Business Administration Maine District Office annual awards represent a broad range of industries and geographic regions.

Bangor Daily News | February 15, 2024

EMDC awards Domestic Trade Grants

Eastern Maine Development Corporation’s Maine APEX, in collaboration with Maine’s Department of Economic and Community Development is announcing a commitment of $309,736 in Domestic Trade grants through the Maine Jobs and Recovery Plan to 26 Maine businesses. The Domestic Trade Initiative is designed to help Maine’s pandemic-impacted businesses sell more goods and services within the United States and supports Maine’s entrepreneurs in accessing or expanding into new markets across the country.

Bangor Daily News | February 2, 2024

The Good Crust joins America’s biggest pizza delivery on National Pizza Day

In celebration of National Pizza Day, local pizza dough manufacturer and pop up pizzeria, The Good Crust, will join pizza restaurants across the country to feed those in need through the Pizza Across America campaign on Feb. 9.

PMQ Pizza Magazine | February 1, 2024

In Smalltown Maine, a Feel-Good Dough Company Emerges

In a village of about 2,000 people, a unique company with a unique mission statement is churning out high quality whole-grain dough.

Down East Magazine | January 31, 2024

Putting Down Roots at Poland’s Wolf Cove Inn

A California couple is investing in a historic lakefront property — and in their future in Maine. The Skidmores emphasize a Maine experience through partnerships with businesses like Campfire Pottery, in Portland, 44 North Coffee, in Deer Isle, Bixby Chocolate, in Rockland, and Maine Mountain Soap and Candle Co., in Greenville. They chose Daybreak Grower’s Alliance and Peak Season Produce as the inn’s primary distributor of Maine-only organic foods for the included breakfast, and optional pizza dinner — made with pizza dough from The Good Crust, in Canaan.

MaineBiz | November 8, 2024

14 central Maine businesses receive grants for pandemic recovery

The Central Maine Growth Council in Waterville awarded 14 grants to early-stage businesses and entrepreneurs in Kennebec and Somerset counties, with a goal of supporting recovery from pandemic impacts. The council’s inaugural Economic Recovery Implementation Hub grant program awarded a total of $325,000 and is still accepting applications from eligible businesses.

Sun Journal | November 2, 2024

Cascade Brook Learns What Goes Into Good Crust

Franklin County Cooperative Extension teamed up with The Good Crust to give fifth graders at Cascade Brook School a lesson on what goes into pizza dough on Tuesday, Oct. 31, along with a delicious demonstration.

MaineBiz | August 28, 2023

A shared success in the Good Crust: A Canaan business builds on Maine-grown ingredients

Heather Kerner is just getting started. Her current growth target is to have The Good Crust’s signature pizza dough in grocery stores all along the East Coast, because in Heather Kerner’s book, the more people at the table, the better.

FOX BANGOR | February 9, 2023

The Good Crust in Canaan Joined in on the National Pizza Day Fun

On National Pizza Day, many pizzerias across the country are giving out free slices to anyone who comes by. And, for the first time ever, The Good Crust in Canaan joined in on the fun -- offering 200 free servings from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Thursday, February 9. Shawn Duffy, operations manager at The Good Crust, explained the importance of the event. "It's quite an issue--food insecurity, and hunger even, here in the state. So, we're happy to take part in this," said Duffy. "I think it's important that everyone really looks into the issue of food insecurity and hunger."

Mainebiz | February 7, 2023

No 'dough' accepted in the Good Crust's pizza giveaway

The Good Crust in Canaan will offer free pizza rolls and bialys this Thursday as part of the nationwide Pizza Across America campaign to combat food insecurity. “We are participating in Pizza Across America because food insecurity is a very real challenge in rural Maine,” Heather Kerner, founder and CEO of the Good Crust, told Mainebiz. She noted that 17% of the population in Somerset County, where the Good Crust is located, experiences food insecurity.

Morning Sentinel | June 8, 2022

Canaan Business Is Rolling the Dough

When Heather Kerner launched her startup, The Good Crust, in 2020, she rented space at The Miller’s Table at Maine Grains in Skowhegan, where she had access a couple of days a week to an 80-square-foot kitchen and a large walk-in freezer. It gave Kerner room to produce up to 11 pounds of pizza dough at a time, with the capacity to make that amount about five times a day. Business, it turned out, was good. The Good Crust has expanded its operation with a move earlier this year to 210 Main St. in Canaan. The 1,200 square feet of space features new equipment that allows for production of about 2,000 pounds of dough per day that work is done.

Bangor Daily News | May 22, 2022

Maker of Only Commercial Pizza Dough Made With Maine Grains Is Expanding

Heather Kerner's business, which produces the only commercially available pizza dough made from 100-percent Maine-sourced grains, recently relocated to a manufacturing facility at 210 Main St. in Canaan.

Mainebiz | May 2, 2022

Building Business: Pizza Dough Maker Started During Pandemic Ready to Expand

The Good Crust, a maker of pizza dough that started in 2020 in a shared kitchen in Skowhegan, has plans to enlarge its workspace at a new location in Canaan. With the expansion in late May in Canaan, the firm will move into 1,200 square feet, allowing it to expand its distribution throughout the Northeast.

WABI-TV 5 | January 24, 2021

The Good Crust Offers Vocational Skills With Homegrown Pizza Dough

A woman in Skowhegan is tossing out job skills along with her homemade pizza dough. ”I really desired a pizza dough that would be made with 100% locally grown grains and at the same time I saw a need for job training programs for youth who may have different needs,” said founder Heather Kerner. With family ties to Maine Grains and a background in occupational therapy, Heather Kerner wanted to combine the two. In September, she started The Good Crust.

KENNEBEC JOURNAL | JANUARY 3, 2021

The Good Crust Rolls out the Dough in Skowhegan

For years, Heather Kerner has used local grains from the grist mill in school-based programming in the Messalonskee school district, and now she has launched her own business that incorporates that work with what she has learned from mentors and through an agency that aids women who seek to be entrepreneurs. An occupational therapist with 23 years’ experience and a longtime volunteer at the annual Kneading Conference, Kerner consulted her twin sister, Amber Lambke, CEO and co-founder of Maine Grains, for help to combine her professional work with the growing trend toward local sourcing to produce local food. The two began discussing Kerner’s business idea about two years ago. At the beginning of 2020, the opportunity to take entrepreneur courses became available and the idea began to become a reality. By the end of the summer, The Good Crust came to fruition, creating a product with ingredients sourced completely from Maine Grains.

PORTLAND PRESS HERALD | JUNE 20, 2021

This Pizza Crust Is Really Good

I have recently found a local pizza dough that does have a mission. Two, in fact. The Good Crust, founded by Heather Kerner, an experienced home baker and an occupational therapist by training; and twin sister to Amber Lambke, a locally grown grain evangelist and CEO of Maine Grains in Skowhegan. Kerner’s nine-month-old company makes dough using only flours stone-milled from grains grown in Maine and produced and packed by workers with physical and cognitive challenges. The company wholesales its 16-ounce frozen dough balls to Maine restaurants like The Miller’s Table in Skowhegan; local breweries that have invested in portable pizza ovens, like Flight Deck in Brunswick; and retail locations like Rosemont Market, which has locations throughout Greater Portland.