NORTH SMITHFIELD – A dairy farm and bakery in town has made the short list of great places to work in Rhode Island.
Wright’s Dairy Farm and Bakery on Woonsocket Hill Road ranked 4 among small-sized companies, according to a list published last week by The Providence Journal, with Chief Executive Officer Ellen Puccetti recognized for her leadership.
A fifth-generation family dairy farm serving northern Rhode Islanders for more than a century, Wright’s first started business as a home delivery milk route. The first deed for the current farm property in North Smithfield was recorded in 1896.
The bakery, started in Claire Wright’s kitchen ,quickly grew to include a full line of cream pastries, breakfast items and decorated cakes. A retail store was added in the 1970s, and a double milking parlor that was built on the farm in 2009.
Milk is processed and sold on site, and the dairy farm has slowly grown a wholesale milk delivery route to service coffee shops, bakeries, and small grocery stores. In 2019, Wright’s Dairy Farm opened an on-site ice cream shop out of a 1966 streamline trailer to promote its cow-to-cone ice cream…