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FOOD INC

The Handmade Bakery presents a
film screening and audience debate

Cooperative Awards 2010

The Handmade Bakery is going from strength to strength and there are now 10 of us involved in one way or another. We're really pleased to let you know that now Matt, Johanna, Alison, Dan, Jo, Miriam, Paul, Natalia, Roy and Billy make up the team. Between us we're baking, cleaning, bookkeeping, running markets and teaching courses.

Hungry for Change?

If you haven't seen it yet then get hold of a copy of the recent documentary Food Inc. Johanna and I watched it last night and sat, jaws dropping, as the film moved its way through the terrifying industrial food landscape of the USA. While Britain isn't in the same league yet, don't be fooled into thinking our farms contain jolly farmers and contented animals as the pretty pictures on shrink-wrapped produce may lead you to believe.

satisfaction is a shared loaf

There was a very brief reference to us in the Saturday Guardian a few weeks ago and it prompted a reader called Pete to get in touch via email. We wrote back and thanked him for his positive encouragement and said we'd look forward to meeting him when he travelled up for the Huddersfield Contemporary Music festival in November. Then a week later he sent this email through which filled me with pride in his endeavours:

hair raising facts

Someone just sent me this link and I just had to share. Our friends at Suma Wholefoods stopped using their longstanding baker over just this issue regarding the Veganess of their bread. We're really happy that they're now eating our bread in their worker canteen.

 

Spreading our wings!

The new year brings with it 2 exciting new outlets for our bread:

Unicorn Grocery in Chorlton, Manchester will be stocking it on Tuesdays and Fridays. If you haven't heard of them, you should have. They're an inspiring cooperative grocery specialising in organic produce.

Real Bread on the Food Programme

Just thought you might be interested in a really interesting Radio 4 Food Programme all about real bread. There is a small piece about us in the programme and lots of other fascinating stuff!

click the link to listen: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pdz1q

A quote from the past

I’ve been thinking long and hard while we’ve been setting up the bakery about our motivations to do so and the possible effect it will have on the community.

Of course some of the motivations are selfish. I love making bread, so what a good way to earn a living! I want to work somewhere I can walk to instead of commuting for 3 hours a day. I want to do something that I can see the results of daily and that others will hopefully appreciate. It all makes sense.