
South Bend Farms
Clip: Season 2026 Episode 25 | 4m 55sVideo has Closed Captions
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One last stop... and it's a delicious one! Courtney and Dave wrap up their adventure through the Indiana Dinosaur Museum complex with a visit to South Bend Farms. Step inside and you'll find a bakery filled with the aroma of freshly made bagels, donuts, and other tasty baked goods. You'll also discover farm-fresh eggs, homemade jams, local favorites, and so much more. To top ...
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South Bend Farms
Clip: Season 2026 Episode 25 | 4m 55sVideo has Closed Captions
One last stop... and it's a delicious one! Courtney and Dave wrap up their adventure through the Indiana Dinosaur Museum complex with a visit to South Bend Farms. Step inside and you'll find a bakery filled with the aroma of freshly made bagels, donuts, and other tasty baked goods. You'll also discover farm-fresh eggs, homemade jams, local favorites, and so much more. To top ...
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipWe're wrapping up our tour here of the Indiana Dinosaur Museum.
Now, South Bend Farms is still part of it.
When I walked in, I expected to smell goats or chickens or something like that.
But I'm overwhelmed with a bakery, if you will.
This is wonderful.
In here I can see plenty of things.
And there are samples.
Most importantly.
Yes, exactly.
What do you guys have to offer here?
When you come into farms, you will just be overwhelmed with the great smell of bread.
We make all of our bagels here for all of our cafes.
Okay.
And then so all of your breakfast sandwiches and lunch sandwiches, you can choose your own bagel flavor.
Everything is made in-house here and delivered right, right here in South Bend.
That's incredible.
If you visit one of our public houses, we have two locations in South Bend and one in Mishawaka.
All of the buns on our upside down burgers are made here daily as well.
That's what we're smelling.
And then, yes, we're smelling that.
And then also we do make our fresh donuts every day.
They're little.
They kind of taste like elephant ear, like a mini carnival donuts.
Mini carnival donuts.
Thanks for having some here for us to sample.
Can I grab that?
No, there isn't any.
There is.
Oh.
Oh, I was being sarcastic.
Sorry.
I didn't know there was actually any there.
So why do you, as a company, decide to, like, do this?
It's obviously a lot more effort to make your own bagels and your own buns.
Like, what's the vision behind doing that as opposed to just like, ordering them in from?
We're very focused on doing everything locally and having just everything locally sourced, doing things ourselves, having it to be the freshest as possible.
So we just have this old bakery on site and it's it's so amazing every day of what they're what the bakers are doing and having not their salsas and their salsas and jams.
Everything is really good.
Cherries their territory.
Damn good.
Cherries are a huge draw for us this year.
And yes, you can get a sample here at the At farms.
I don't know, this is PBS.
They might blur out that word or like this might be the first time experience Michiana has bleeps in it.
Like, you know, no one's get it.
And so, Courtney, how was the donut?
Well, the donor's delicious.
I'm a huge fan of carnival donuts, but they come in 12 or 24 packs, so I already looked that up over there.
So you can grab those donuts and get your coffee in the morning too, so which is great.
What time does this open?
We open at 9:00.
Okay.
Yes, but the cafe open at the cafe opens at seven.
And then you can also get fresh bagels over there as well.
But, yeah, you can stop here on your way out.
We got lots of items for gifting, which is very cool.
That's great.
And another added feature, all of our chickens on our property.
You can purchase farm fresh eggs here as well as the eggs.
And the public houses are used.
They're using the eggs using our eggs.
See, that's why when I walked into South Bend Farms, I was like, where's the chicken?
I was thinking, you guys have them here.
I actually have them up in the Continental Divide Park.
And what about the bison burger?
No, no.
Sorry, guys.
We we we keep those guys.
I'm sorry I said this with that, but this is great because everything that you guys have here, just to kind of wrap things up, this is a one stop place.
You can spend all day here.
You can come back multiple times.
You can grab your laptop and grab a coffee, grab some bagels.
Everything really is available here for you guys.
And I think that's kind of the intention for this space.
Very much so.
It's very meant for all ages, all budgets.
You can come here and like I said, get a coffee and go to work.
You can bring your entire family for the day.
You can hike in the trails for free and not two of them.
Like there's so many options here.
All price points, all age levels.
You can eat, drink, walk, have fun.
I mean learn like, there's just so much to do here.
And I know that there are events coming up so you can follow the several Facebook pages like the Chocolate Cafe.
Absolutely.
Indiana Dinosaur Museum, you can follow all of them and like movie nights and different events.
Exactly.
We have more events in the fall.
We had a Halloween event last year that we're going to do it again this year.
We have some Christmas events and so we do a lot.
And you guys have rental space available as well.
We do have rental space.
We do our own catering on site, so we can rent out something as small as a conference room to the public house, to the atrium, you know, whatever your needs are.
This is so great.
Thank you so much for sharing this space with us today.
This is my first time visiting.
I'll definitely be back.
Bring my family grandkids.
I hope you guys get the time to come on out here to the Indiana Dinosaur Museum.
It's right here in our town.
And Courtney, I'm looking forward to seeing you in person again at Christmas when I see all your Christmas trees.
Yeah, that's where we're not allowed around each other anymore than that.
Twice a year.
That's it.
Have a good one.
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