Guiding Principles
We’re about making good bread - the kind that provides a sturdy canvas for your meal, nourishes, and tastes great. We respect and fairly compensate the bakers, porters, packers, drivers and retail workers who make our bread and get it into your hands. We are committed to exploring a lost culinary heritage of thrifty ingenuity, donating or re-purposing excess bread to keep it out of the landfill. We do our best to ensure that the resources exchanged to run the bakery support our local economy.
Sourcing
We preserve the vitality of local, organic grain by milling fresh flour on our New American Stone Mill. Besides our organic bread flour, all of the grain we use is grown and processed in the mid-Atlantic without the use of glyphosates or other practices that are detrimental to life on our planet at large.
Year-round, sweet cream and milk, sugar beets, and Yukon gold potatoes from around Lancaster County add flavor to our doughs. Seasonally, we highlight treats like concord grapes and fresh Jersey cranberries, tossed with maple syrup and roasted until they pop. Instead of olive oil shipped from thousands of miles away, we use flavorful regionally grown and produced sunflower, canola, and hemp oils. We our proud to join our dedicated suppliers in celebrating the vibrant foods around us