What is in your bag of bread?
Do you think about the bread that you eat? Have you read the label? Is there a label to read? If not, is there someone at the shop with whom you can discuss your bread? These are serious questions. Have Read More …
Category: Food activism
Success is about being remarkable – and we are
Dear Mr Godin You wrote a book called Purple Cow which is great and which says among other things if you want to have a remarkable company you have to have a great product that people want to buy and Read More …
Community building through bread
Virtuous Bread was established was to effect positive social change through bread. Over the years many of the Bread Angels who have done the micro bakery course with Virtuous Bread have gone on to forge businesses as well as build Read More …
What are the benefits of having a micro bakery
Why did I set up Virtuous Bread? I love baking bread – CHECK I am good at making bread, teaching baking, and running a business (by dint of the fact that I have customers and a business that is profitable) Read More …
The keys to living a long and healthy life
Baking and sharing bread are two of the keys to living a long and healthy life… 10 years ago, National Geographic magazine, Dan Buettner, and a group of demographers began a search for the keys to a long and healthy life. Read More …
There are many benefits to becoming a microbaker…
…and in the end, they are all personal. Recently, Gaye taught the microbakery course to three lovely people. This means that there are three new microbakers in the UK delivering excellent bread to people and businesses in their local communities. Three Read More …
Francesca Barker – The Barker Baker talks drug addiction, crime, and baking
“Soda bread is my specialty…it sounds geeky but I just love the feel of dough.” Bread really can change lives. Francesca Barker took a micro bakery course last year and it changed her life. Listen to her story here. You Read More …
The growth of the micro bakery in the UK
Micro businesses are an important segment of the business population in the UK. They are technically defined as businesses with fewer than 10 employees and less than 2 million euros of turnover. 2 million euros? I’ll take that (or half Read More …
Sharing bread at the Women on the Move awards ceremony
A couple of weeks ago saw a celebration of Women on the Move in London. Women on the Move is an organisation that champions refugee and immigrant women and the awards ceremony is an important event in their calender. Liz, Read More …
Baking with Refugee Women – more from the Just Bread project
The Just Bread project goes from strength to strength. The women are growing in confidence, today they are going to sell the bread they make and next week they are catering an event! WOW! For the event we actually need Read More …