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Hylsten Bakery, Buckfastleigh (2026)

31/03/2026

Bread Classes at Hylsten

New dates just added:

30th May
13th June
11th July
1st August

Bread class days are some of our favourites. Each class is an opportunity to welcome a different group of people. Varying levels of experience, different backgrounds, different ways of seeing the world. Always fertile ground for thought provoking discussions as we delve into the intricacies of bread making and important conversations about local and global food and farming systems.

If you’d like to join us visit www.hylstenbakery.co.uk/classes (link in bio) to secure your place.

Thank you to for this beautiful photo of… dare I say it our smiliest baker ever we love you!

14/03/2026

Our very talented created this beautiful lino cut print after spending the past five months with us—mixing, shaping, and baking as an essential part of our wonderful team of bakers.

Her work captures the quiet magic that emerges from working together in a bakery.

The work itself is repetitive. Each day we follow the same processes and rhythms—three or four bakers moving seamlessly together to produce anywhere from 300 to 900 loaves of bread.

But rather than becoming monotonous, the repetition allows for a deeper flow and connection to take place. Over time a natural synchronicity begins to form. Words become fewer and time passes with ease. We’re grateful to have shared this space with Lex and wish her all the best for her next adventure 💕

01/03/2026

What a privilege to be included in this publication produced by and in celebration of Real Bread Week.

This is the annual celebration by the Real Bread Campaign to highlight the importance of Real Bread - bread made without chemical agents, processing aids or any other additives.

For us at Hylsten, real bread means a loaf that is produced acknowledging the whole system - from the soil to the plate. It is about building relationships with everyone in the chain - it is about care and reverence for every one of those links - ultimately producing a loaf that is truly nourishing and one that at each step of its production has brought more joy and regeneration into the world than mass produced alternatives.

Link in our bio to read the full publication.

And a big shout out to these cuties doing their best posing and of course being the hands and hearts behind all our bread - Jamie, Benji and Gary 🫶🏼

12/02/2026

We’re Hiring — Head Baker

(Please check out the video in previous post for full Hylsten flavour)

This is a unique, hands-on leadership role in which you will have the opportunity to lead a team in producing a serious amount of sourdough bread made with some of the most beautiful and exciting flour in the country.
We’re looking for someone who:

- Cares deeply about local and global food systems, sustainability, and craftsmanship.
- Is eager to leave their own thoughtful mark on Hylsten’s next chapter.
- Leads with compassion, collaboration, and sensitivity.
- Has experience managing a small team in a bakery or similar setting.
- Is confident and skilled in making sourdough bread using stoneground UK flour.

If you’re ready to bring your skill, creativity, and care to a small, values-driven bakery, we’d love to hear from you.

We aim to be an inclusive employer and organisation. Studies have found that women and candidates from minoritised communities do not apply to roles unless they meet 100% of the criteria. We encourage candidates to apply even if they do not meet all the criteria in the person specifications.

To apply: please email your CV and cover letter to [email protected]. A detailed job description will be shared upon application.

12/02/2026

We’re Hiring — Head Baker

This is a unique, hands-on leadership role in which you will have the opportunity to lead a team in producing a serious amount of sourdough bread made with some of the most beautiful and exciting flour in the country.

We’re looking for someone who:

- Cares deeply about local and global food systems, sustainability, and craftsmanship.
- Is eager to leave their own thoughtful mark on Hylsten’s next chapter.
- Leads with compassion, collaboration, and sensitivity.
- Has experience managing a small team in a bakery or similar setting.
- Is confident and skilled in making sourdough bread using stoneground UK flour.

If you’re ready to bring your skill, creativity, and care to a small, values-driven bakery, we’d love to hear from you.

We aim to be an inclusive employer and organisation. Studies have found that women and candidates from minoritised communities do not apply to roles unless they meet 100% of the criteria. We encourage candidates to apply even if they do not meet all the criteria in the person specifications.

To apply: please email your CV and cover letter to [email protected]. A detailed job description will be shared upon application.

12/02/2026

We’re Hiring — Head Baker

This is a unique, hands-on leadership role in which you will have the opportunity to lead a team in producing a serious amount of sourdough bread made with some of the most beautiful and exciting flour in the country.

We’re looking for someone who:

- Cares deeply about local and global food systems, sustainability, and craftsmanship.
- Is eager to leave their own thoughtful mark on Hylsten’s next chapter.
- Leads with compassion, collaboration, and sensitivity.
- Has experience managing a small team in a bakery or similar setting.
- Is confident and skilled in making sourdough bread using stoneground UK flour.

If you’re ready to bring your skill, creativity, and care to a small, values-driven bakery, we’d love to hear from you.

We aim to be an inclusive employer and organisation. Studies have found that women and candidates from minoritised communities do not apply to roles unless they meet 100% of the criteria. We encourage candidates to apply even if they do not meet all the criteria in the person specifications.

To apply: please email your CV and cover letter to [email protected]. A detailed job description will be shared upon application.

24/12/2025

The cutest Christmas Party ever!

We spent a gorgeous few hours last Wednesday afternoon at the with the mission of making our very own work mugs.

There were lots of mince pies, glasses of bubbles and Christmas sarnies to keep us going

So so fun to see the full spectrum of what constitutes a mug… the word goblet was thrown around a lot - results to come in January as Alison will be glazing and firing our work for us

If you’re enjoying a Hylsten loaf this Christmas - send some love out to this incredible team of bakers and drivers that make it all happen 💞

17/12/2025

EXTRA CHRISTMAS BAKES

We will be doing some bonus bakes on:

Saturday 20th
Monday 22nd

Our normal baking schedule will run all the way up to 24th, with Christmas Eve being our last bake of the year.

We will then be closed to give our bakers some well earned rest and reopen for one bake on the 3rd January with our normal schedule resuming from the 6th

A big thank you to everyone that has bought a Hylsten loaf this year. We’ve loved baking for you!

08/11/2025

Shifting Flours…

After a couple of months settling into using this season’s harvest, we’ve grown confident enough to increase the amount of wholegrain and True South West flour going into all our doughs.

The mission at Hylsten has always been to use as much of these beautiful grains as possible, and it feels very exciting to know that this adds up to using tonnes more of these flours than we did last year.

We are on a mission to prioritise these flours because they represent a grain economy we want to see thrive—one that is attempting to challenge the dominant commodity market, where grain is traded facelessly all over the world in the name of profit.

Our local grain economy is built on human-scale relationships involving direct and meaningful communication with everyone in the chain. For us, that means Fred Rosy and Ollie and Michael at Cann Mill. It might sound silly, but the fact that we have regular WhatsApp chats - where we share holiday photos, talk about the highs and lows of running a business, and celebrate our wins together over glasses of wine…. It is these small, day-to-day interactions that build the care, respect, and trust required to support one another to continue to be brave and fight against the capitalist system that too readily rewards exploitation and growth at any cost.

It is an immense privilege to work in this way and we want to send out a huge amount of love and respect to everyone out there who is either working in these systems or choosing to invest your money to support them - Our collective efforts do make a difference!

Just under a month until the party! If you would like to come please RSVP to 5thbirthday@hylstenbakery.co.uk as I need t...

20/09/2025

Just under a month until the party! If you would like to come please RSVP to [email protected] as I need to figure out how much wine and cheese we’ll all be consuming!

A reminder that this invitation is to anyone who feels connected to Hylsten in any way. If our loaves have had a special place in your life please come and have a glass of wine on us. It is our way of saying a small thank you as we literally wouldn’t be here without you!

23/08/2025

HYLSTEN TURNS 5

On September 2nd, 2020, we pulled our first loaves of bread out of the oven and delivered them to a handful of local shops in a beat-up Nissan Micra.

The five years that have followed have felt nothing short of a miracle. It has been such a privilege to make bread every day and to work with a very special network of local businesses who help us get our bread out into the world.

It was this network and the community that supports it that came to our rescue in December 2021, when a catastrophic fire ripped through the bakery just days before Christmas.

We emailed our customers to say we’d have to close the business, but two incredible women, Elise from and Sima from were having none of it. They instantly replied saying they would create a Go Fund Me page to get us back on our feet.

In just six weeks, they raised £28,000 which enabled us to buy a new oven, repair the smoke damage, and pay our staff during the closure.

It still blows us away that we wouldn’t be here without the beautiful generosity of so many. Nor would we still be going without the continued support of everyone who buys our bread, week in and week out.

We want to thank you for quietly acknowledging that our bread is a product of a natural system — the flour we use varies from season to season, from farm to farm, and our bread varies with it.

We’ve never had anyone complain about the sizes or shape of our loaves — even when we’ve winced at the idea of sending them out (and yes, we know we’ve sent some pancakes into the world at times — it’s always a bit heartbreaking). Thank you, from the bottom of our hearts, for buying our bread on those days. It feels like a small, radical act of love from each one of you.

We hope you know that this steadfast support not only enables us to keep baking for you — it also supports a much wider network of millers and farmers who are working tirelessly to build a resilient UK grain economy.

As a small gesture of our gratitude, we’ll be throwing a 5th birthday party at the bakery on October 11th… continued in the comments

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