Our Story
Rachel’s Taste of Indiana was founded in 2018 by Rachel and Mark Boyer. It started as the storefront for Healthy Hoosier Oil, a cold-press sunflower oil plant also located in Converse, IN, but quickly grew into a boutique store that features Indiana grown and made goods and products.
Our family are long-time residents of the local area, having farmed ground in Miami County and neighboring counties for six generations, with the seventh generation starting to learn the family tradition and family farming practices. Starting with commodity crops common in Indiana—soy beans, corn, and wheat—we added sunflowers to the farm in 2007, eventually opening Healthy Hoosier Oil in 2014 and starting operations to produce and sell cold-pressed culinary sunflower oils.
Partnering and working with other local Indiana businesses has always been at the heart of our business model. It’s always been important to us to support our neighbors, and we’re proud to be able to offer both local residents and visitors to our community a unique shopping experience that features goods sourced 100% from across Indiana. Joining the Indiana Grown program has been a vital part of our ability to network with other Indiana businesses and source those goods.
What started as a store front for cold-pressed culinary sunflower oils has grown into a small-town family-owned business that has farm-to-table culture at our core. Not only can you buy Healthy Hoosier Oil’s sunflower oil in our store, but so many other unique and wonderful goods from across Indiana are available. From hand-made souvenirs to fresh-from-the-farm local beef, pork, and dairy, our in-store offerings represent the best that Indiana’s farmers, artisans, and craftspeople offer. Homemade pies and cookies are also made fresh on location (the peanut butter pie is a best seller!).