When neighbors who were the benefactors of Alyssa Burham’s baked goods became insistent that she stop giving them away, the seeds were planted for a new business.

She explained, “After spending 11 years in the corporate world, I was on maternity leave with my second daughter and bored, so I was always making more treats for my neighbors. They encouraged me to start a business and stop doing it for free. They said I should be compensated.”

That was the start of a journey that would result in the business, Little Birdies Treats & Coffee , owned by Alyssa Durham and her husband, Austin. The Greenville business, with its mobile trailer, can be found in various locations all over northeastern Wisconsin. But that’s only part of the story.

Durham loved baking from an early age (although she

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