Kazco Crackers keeps it simple

Spencer and Tamara Kazaniwsky-Corish are regular vendors at farmers’ markets in both Port Colborne and Wainfleet, offering up their sourdough based crackers using a small list of quality ingredients. ~ Luke Edwards photo

By Luke Edwards

They love being creative, and they love feeding people.

Tamara and Spencer Kazaniwsky-Corish found a way to combine the two in the form of the humble cracker. Since last year the Wainfleet pair have been running Kazco Crackers, and are regulars at both the Port Colborne and Wainfleet farmers’ markets.

“I’ve baked forever, I’ve always been a baker. It’s never been something that I’ve pursued career-wise but I really love to feed people,” Tamara said.

With busy lives that make regular meals not always possible, but with a desire to eat healthy, Tamara and Spencer began looking for options.

The result was Kazco Crackers, a sourdough based cracker that Tamara said is low in salt, sugar, and oils, and high in fibre, with sourdough goodness that can help gut health.

Kazco offers three main cracker types: an all butter cracker, seeded with pumpkin, sunflower and hemp, and then a flax and hemp heart cracker.

And since they’re both artists, quite often the creative juices get flowing, so visitors to the Port Colborne and Wainfleet markets may see sourdough peanut butter cookies, biscotti or some other new creation on any given week.

Currently, their main outlets are the two markets, but Kazco will also take custom orders.

“That’s what we strive for, we want to make people happy,” said Spencer, adding the markets are a perfect place for that.

“We love meeting people, and want to celebrate the joy of life.”

Members of the LGBTQ+ community, Spencer said it’s also important for them to be welcoming and inclusive.

Eventually Tamara said it’d be great to make their cracker venture a full time gig, getting their product into shops or even opening a bricks and mortar store themselves.

In the meantime, visit them at either market, Port Colborne’s runs Friday morning in the downtown market square, while Wainfleet’s runs Tuesdays from 3 to 7 p.m. in the pavilion behind the arena.

For more information, email them at kazcocrackers@gmail.com, or follow them on Instagram, @kazcocrackers.