Home-based businesses flourish in Palouse

Three new home-based businesses begun in the past two years are gaining establishment in Palouse, along with a longtime architect who recently joined the Chamber of Commerce.

Northwest Cheesecrafters and its product “Ghost Pepper Cheese Bites” are now sold in 15 stores after beginning with their first tasting at Palouse Market in October 2013.

The half-pound bags of cheese cubes are made by Johnny Parkins and his wife Sharon in a sterile room and dry storage area they built onto their house.

“You could do an operation in there, that’s how clean it is,” said Sharon.

The cheddar bites are flavor...