In 2012, a handful of friends met at the Horny Toad Bar & Grill in Cranfills Gap to celebrate two of their favorite things: bacon and community. The group realized their love for bacon could do good by helping kids with Type 1 Diabetes and keeping Texans warm through Niki Warms the Cold, founded in memory of Niki Carlson. More than a decade later, that small idea has become Texas’s biggest bacon festival with 30 cook-off teams, live music, cold beer, and over $1 million raised for families across the state.