We set up Tracebridge Sourdough in 2008 because we love good bread but found it almost impossible to buy it locally. Gordon has always made bread and pizza at home, for friends and parties, and everyone loves it. The leap into making it a business came when we moved to Tracebridge on the Somerset Devon border and we found we had the space to build a wood-fired masonry oven and access to a supply of wood to fire it. Gordon built the oven in the Spring and by the Autumn we were selling our first bread and buns in our village shop in Stawley. Gordon is the baker and Katie makes the weekend buns, meringues and biscuits.

Between March and November we are helped in the bakery by WWOOFers. This is an international scheme (see links), World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms, that matches volunteers looking for experience of growing and free board and lodging in return for work on organic farms and small holdings. Our WWOOfers have been fantastic, helping with our vegetable garden and animals, and in the bakery.

If you are interested in WWOOfing with us you need to register via their website first.

Apprentices
We have also been helped by a small number of apprentice bakers, from whom we have learned as much as they have form us. We are self-taught rather than formally trained bakers, but our apprentices have valued gaining experience of running a small bakery and working with a wood-fired oven.

If you are already baking and would like to extend your experience we can offer short apprentices on a similar basis as the WWOOFers.

Because we are concerned about food miles, and want to support local village shops and enterprises, we only sell our bread within a ten-mile radius of the bakery. This covers Wiveliscombe, Wellington and Tiverton and the villages in between.

We deliver on a Thursday, Friday and Saturday. See bread for info.

 

tel 01823 672301
www.tracebridgesourdough.co.uk • [email protected]
Rose Cottage • Tracebridge • Wellington • Somerset TA21 0HG