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Wheatberries Bakery

Welcome to Wheatberries Bakery, the home of healthy scratch-made baked goods, light meals… and rich organic coffee.

Wheatberries is currently dreaming of it's next iteration. So many beautiful memories and amazing times.

06/03/2022

Congratulations and welcome to our friends Jen and Carola from German Corner Bakery & Bistro who have moved into Davis Bay and will begin operations next week.
Check out their delicious products starting Tuesday June 14th, you will be happy you did.

04/23/2022

It’s been an amazing journey in Davis Bay. We would like to thank the community for always being so welcoming, our regulars for their ongoing support and kind words, shared waves across the street.
Focusing on our Wheatberries Community Meal Program (originally SCFSR) over the last two years has been both challenging and yet so rewarding. We’ve missed the hustle and bustle, the daily connections, but also appreciated working in a sector of food that aims to address food insecurity in our community.
We feel proud of the work on this program, delivered in partnership with many others in community that has now produced over 30,000 meals and donated 5,500 to neighbours facing food insecurity. At a time where so many factors are pushing against a simple sustainable cost of living here, we’d like to thank the whole coast for their support of this work, as ultimately it’s been your purchases that have driven the impact.
Journeys take us many places, and for our small team we’re excited to consider where our path continues. We’re excited to take some time, plant a garden, sow some seeds and see what grows.
In Love
Mark, Jane, Brianna, and Maren Yellowley

02/23/2022

Please Vote for US! https://smallbusinessbc.ca/awards/nominee/2022/wheatberries-bakery-davis-bay/
Last week we were really touched to be nominated by someone in the community for this year’s Business Impact Award offered through Small Business BC . We were nominated for our work in our Wheatberries Bakery Davis Bay location addressing food insecurity on the Sunshine Coast.
In March 2020, as a family, we decided to pivot our work in Wheatberries Bakery Davis Bay towards a frozen meal program that would provide food for our community. Initially in partnership with Drift Cafe, we launched the Sunshine Coast Food Service Response meal program. For every six meals that the program sells one is donated to community. In May 2020, as other production partners in the program were transitioning back to retail operations, we made the difficult decision to not re-open our storefront. Requests for the meals were increasing, as were the number of local families struggling with food insecurity. We decided to focus deeper on this work, build more of our business around impact, and have been running the program since then as a team of four.
We’re usually quite quiet on social media. However we wanted to ask for some help, both in voting for us if that makes sense to you, and sharing the news of the nomination. Apparently we just have One week of the 4 week window left to receive votes, so anything you’re comfortable with would sure be appreciated. Votes can be cast above or here....
https://smallbusinessbc.ca/awards/nominee/2022/wheatberries-bakery-davis-bay/
We’re very proud of the impact of our work over the last couple years, and would be excited to share that story with the wider audience that the BC Small Business Awards would give us.

Feels like business and community lifting each other up is the kind of story we all need to hear right now.

This work has been and continues to be an amazing journey. It’s been a ton of effort, yet during difficult times it’s also provided us with a wonderfully positive thing to focus on as a family. We appreciate deeply the relationships built with partners in the program and the public’s amazing support.

Last week we celebrated the programs 5400th meal donation.
Sincerely

Jane, Brianna, Maren, and Mark Yellowley

In March 2020 Wheatberries Bakery Davis Bay pivoted their business model from a retail bakery coffee shop into a social enterprise dedicated towards assisting in feeding the most vulnerable in their community. Initially as a direct response to Covid-19, Wheatberries Davis Bay partnered in launching....

09/12/2021

In our first week we have raised over $6,000.00 for local health care workers to enjoy complimentary coffee or tea. What an amazing response! Thanks to the dozens of donors who have contributed and all the likes and shares. It’s a small thank-you for all that they provide our community. Thank-you 💛!