Published on: April 27, 2018 at 5:00 AM

By Chad Allen

No matter how you slice it, Touch of Home Bakery is the place for pies and breads.

Linda Dirks said it was her parents’ lack of a green thumb that made the Black Belt bakery possible.

After failing to make a go of farming, Dirks said her parents decided to start a bakery in 1993 when her mother was 68 years old. After her father passed away, Dirks and her husband, Clinton, decided to keep it going.“It was hard to let it go out of the family after all of her hard work,” she said.

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