Mud Bay

When Elsa Wulff bought a little farm store in 1988, Mud Bay was born. On Mud Bay Road, which extends west from Olympia and across the bottom of Mud Bay, one of the southern arms of Puget Sound, the store was situated in an eighty-year-old structure.
Early on, Mud Bay offered a small selection of almost everything, including locally produced hog feed, fertilizer, hay, pop tarts, and folk art. The shop also suffered a loss. Lars, Elsa's son, joined Mud Bay as its third employee in 1989 after realizing that his mother couldn't afford for the company to fail.