Enjoy Mill Valley | Flour Craft Bakery to Open in Mill Valley Lumber Yard in Early 2018

For many, the anxiety incited by a diagnosis that forever changes one’s diet can be overwhelming.

Count Heather Hardcastle among those who did not waver in the face of difficult news. Diagnosed with gluten intolerance in 2000, Hardcastle, then a partner with her husband Rick Perko in the landscape design and construction firm Breaking Ground Landscape Designs they ran for 15 years, did not simply eliminate her favorite foods that included gluten. She made a massive career change instead, entering the pastry program at the Culinary Institute of America in St. Helena and learning how to cook all of the pastries and dishes she loved gluten-free from scratch.