Allamakee County Farm Bureau member Bobbi Jo Berg first launched Recipes from French Creek as a simple recipe blog.

After long days at work, Bobbi Jo Berg would spend hours building her website and promoting her recipes on social media. It started as a hobby, though she quietly hoped that one day it might attract enough traffic to generate income.

In the meantime, Berg began receiving requests from locals in the Decorah/Waukon area, asking if she could make the dishes she was posting online. That...