Stacie and Carl Nagel are the new owners of the Edgerton Bakery. They moved to Edgerton from Worthington earlier this month and have purchased the bakery from Scott Landin, who has owned the bakery for nearly 23 years.

The couple closed on the purchase of the bakery last Wednesday, but has been learning the ropes for the last few months. 

Stacie currently works at Ameriprise Financial in Worthington. She has commitments there until the end of May, so she has been really busy training her replacement there as well as learning the work at the bakery. For the next couple of weeks, she will be working at the bakery in the mornings until about 9:30,  and then driving to Worthington to work until 5 p.m. there. 

Carl works for Old Dutch Foods, Inc. He has worked there for about a year and a half. Prior to that, he worked for Deli Express, but lost that job when the pandemic shut them down. He plans to stay at his current position, but hopes to transition into working at the bakery later this fall. 

Carl and Stacie met in 2013 and were married in 2014. They have three small poodle mix dogs. Carl also has two sons from a previous relationship. Lincoln is 15 and Sully is 12. 

Carl and Stacie heard about the Edgerton Bakery from Stacie’s friend, Ruth Kooiman. At the time, they were looking into buying the Worthington Bakery, but did not think it was the right fit for them. Over coffee one day, Stacie was talking about that and Ruth suggested that they look into purchasing the Edgerton Bakery and moving to Edgerton. 

Stacie mentioned it to Carl, and he said, “Okay.” Two days later they met up with Keith Elbers from Real Estate Retrievers and had a tour of the Edgerton Bakery and the one house that was for sale in town at the time. 

They liked what they saw and agreed to keep moving forward. “We decided we would just keep going until God said “no,” Stacie said. “Things took time, but everything just fell into place.” 

They sold their house in Worthington in three days. They had several showings and offers and ended up selling it for more than their asking price.  Stacie started coming to town one day a week to work at the bakery and learn how the day-to-day work went. A month ago, they both came down and worked a Saturday, which is one of the busiest days at the bakery. 

As they worked towards closing on the bakery, a lot of people have expressed support of their endeavor, but everyone wants to know if they will make changes. 

“Everything is going to stay the same,” Carl said. They have no plans to change any recipes or offerings at this time. They see that the bakery has been successful the way it has been run, so they want to keep things consistent.