PHOTO GALLERY: Jessica Long enjoys pace of Rocheport

Jessica Long, 26, moves her hands over grains as they go through a stone mill to make flour early in the morning on April 24. Long grinds all of the grains that she uses in her breads on site.   |  Kristen Zeis

Jessica Long, 26, dances with Dave Smith on April 27 at the General Store in Rocheport. The General Store has live music on Friday and Saturday nights that attracts both the locals and the tourists who are brought to town by the local shops, winery, bed and breakfasts and the Katy Trail.   |  Kristen Zeis

Jessica Long watches as her co-worker Jaeson Day helps load finished bread into the car. On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays Long bakes loaves of bread that are delivered to both Clover’s Natural Market locations and two Hy-Vee locations in Columbia. Long has hopes to expand her business one day into a storefront bakery that would draw people to Rocheport.   |  Kristen Zeis

Jessica Long says goodbye to her neighbor and friend Amanda Weyerich after the two had lunch together at Abigail's, a Rocheport restaurant. Long says that Rocheport’s close-knit community is one of the reasons she is happy there.   |  Kristen Zeis

Jessica Long, 26, helps her neighbor Joe Aguirre move a broken washer to the curb.   |  Kristen Zeis

Iced cinnamon rolls and fresh loaves of bread cool before being packaged at the General Store in Rocheport on April 27. Jessica Long owns Annie's Breads and uses the store's kitchen in the early morning to bake her breads.   |  Kristen Zeis

Jessica Long bags and ties bread that her co-worker Jaeson Day cut in a bread slicing machine. They will later be delivered to four Columbia grocery stores.   |  Kristen Zeis

Jessica Long, 26, holds Hannah Weyerich, 8 months, at a table with, from left, Amanda Weyerich, Navarre Scholes, 11, and Joe Aguirre while they wait for their lunch. The friends had lunch at Abigail’s, a locally owned restaurant in Rocheport.   |  Kristen Zeis