JESSICA WIESS - THE RED COUCH BAKERY

August is the beginning of apple harvest season, and what better time to talk to a local village entrepreneur who knows how to bake an extraordinary pie? 

Jessica Weiss and her family moved to Lions Bay just before the Olympics in 2010, but it wasn't until the pandemic that her idea for a bakery began to flower. "It came out of a desire that I had to create something with my own hands, and to find a way to add extra income for our family," she says. 

With a background in science, as well as restaurant and tourism management, she'd had culinary experience but had never done anything more than home baking.