The garden bakery

11/10/2026

🌿 A very sad goodbye from The Garden Bakery 🌿

It’s with a very heavy heart that I’ve made the decision to close The Garden Bakery.

With the cost of ingredients, gas and electricity so high, I’ve been working incredibly hard while making only a very small profit. Since my latest ingredient order, and with the colder weather bringing the extra cost of heating to keep my starter warm and my bread proving nicely, alongside the ovens running at full power, the figures simply no longer add up.

I would need to increase the price of every loaf by around 50% just to break even. As much as I love baking, I can’t keep going with costs rising like this.

All orders already placed for delivery this Wednesday will still be baked and delivered as arranged. 💚

This has never been “just bread” to me. Making sourdough has helped me through some very tough times in my life. There’s so much love, time and care in every loaf, and I’m enormously attached to this little bakery and everything it has meant to me. Saying goodbye is heartbreaking.

But with soaring costs, family commitments and everything else life brings, I have to accept that I can no longer continue baking the lovely sourdough I’ve been so proud to share with you.

If things change in the future and it becomes possible for me to bake again, I would happily start The Garden Bakery back up. I would love to be able to share my bread with you again one day.

Thank you to everyone who has ordered, recommended me, shared my posts or sent a lovely message. Your support has meant more than you’ll ever know, and I’ll always be grateful that my bread found a place in your homes.

With love and a very heavy heart,
Emma 💚
The Garden Bakery

01/10/2026

🍞 A little update from The Garden Bakery…

My beautiful old-fashioned hand-crank bread slicer has sadly passed away. It is officially deceased! 💔😂

I’m now using an electric slicer, but it doesn’t quite manage those lovely thick slices. So if you’re ordering inclusion loaves such as cheese & Marmite or cheese & garlic butter, the slices will be a little thinner than usual for now.

I do plan to get another hand-crank slicer, but at around £150, replacing it isn’t top of my priority list just yet.

If you prefer a thicker slice, you’re very welcome to ask for your loaf unsliced and cut it just how you like at home.

Thank you for understanding—and a moment’s silence for my trusty old slicer! 🍞🤍

19/09/2026

Just a little update 💚

I’ve decided to take next week off from baking to give my back some proper time to rest and recover.

I’ll be back baking as normal the following week. Thank you all so much for your patience, understanding and lovely messages—it really means a lot to me.

Emma 🍞

The Garden Bakery

14/09/2026

🌿 A little update from The Garden Bakery 🌿

I’m feeling a bit better this morning ❤️ My back is still very sore, but I’m hoping it’s mostly just bruising from my fall.

I’m going to get my starters fed today, which means I’ll be able to get back to doing what I love and have your sourdough ready for Thursday 🍞🥰

So, just for this week, everything will be Thursday.

🍞 For those of you who collect your bread from Freya’s café, your orders will be there ready for collection on Thursday.

🚗 For my regular customers who have their bread delivered to their homes, I’ll deliver to you as normal — just on Thursday this week.

I’m really sorry for the delay, but I also want to say a HUGE thank you. ❤️ I’ve had so many lovely, kind messages checking in on me, and I genuinely appreciate every single one of you.

Thank you for being so understanding and for supporting my little bakery. It really does mean the world to me. 🥰🍞

See you Thursday!

Emma
The Garden Bakery 🌿🍞

13/09/2026

🌿 A little update from The Garden Bakery 🌿

Unfortunately, I had a fall from my horse today and I’m currently in quite a lot of pain, particularly around my side. 😢

As you all know, every loaf that leaves The Garden Bakery is made by hand, and right now I’m just not physically able to do all the mixing, shaping, lifting and baking that goes into making your bread to the standard I want.

I’m therefore hoping my lovely customers won’t mind if I push this week’s baking/deliveries back by a day or two, just to give my body a little time to recover and for the pain to settle enough for me to get back in the bakery.

I absolutely hate letting anyone down, but I also don’t want to rush back and make things worse. I’ll keep everyone updated and get your lovely fresh sourdough to you as soon as I possibly can. 🍞🤍

Thank you so much for your patience, understanding and continued support of my little bakery. It genuinely means the world to me. 🌾

Emma
The Garden Bakery 🌿🍞

01/09/2026

🌿 THE GARDEN BAKERY 🌿

Sandwich-Style Seeded Sourdough 🍞🌻

All the goodness of proper sourdough… just in a shape that makes everyday life a little easier. 🤎

Soft, beautifully seeded and baked in a traditional sandwich-style tin, giving you those lovely even slices that are perfect for toast, sandwiches, packed lunches or simply smothered in butter.

🌾 Naturally fermented sourdough
🌻 Packed with seeds throughout
🍞 Soft, substantial crumb
🥪 Easy sandwich-sized slices
🤎 Handmade from scratch at The Garden Bakery

No fancy factory loaf here — just real sourdough, made slowly, with simple ingredients and plenty of time.

And LOOK at that inside 😍
Those seeds. That crumb. That squish. 👌

Proper bread, made the slow way. 🌿

27/08/2026

26/08/2026

🍞 A Little Garden Bakery Update 🌿

Firstly, I just want to say a huge thank you to each and every one of you who continues to order, support and recommend The Garden Bakery. I’m honestly so grateful for every single loaf you buy and every lovely message I receive. It means more to me than you probably realise. ❤️

As many of you know, I’ve normally been delivering to The Leaf Lounge Café and my regular customers on a Monday. But because proper sourdough is a slow, three-day process, Monday deliveries mean that almost my entire weekend is spent preparing, fermenting, shaping and baking.

So, to give me a little more balance while still making your bread with exactly the same love, care and time, I’m making a small change. 🌾

From now on, my delivery day will be WEDNESDAY. 🍞

This will include deliveries to The Leaf Lounge Café as well as my regular customer orders.

Because I need time to plan my baking diary and make sure I have all the lovely ingredients I need, orders for Wednesday delivery will need to be with me by the THURSDAY BEFORE.

🌿 New weekly routine:
Thursday – Order deadline
Wednesday – Fresh sourdough delivery day

Nothing about the bread is changing — it will still be the same proper, slow-fermented sourdough, handmade by me from start to finish. I’m simply moving my baking days so that I can continue doing what I love without every weekend disappearing into flour and dough! 😂❤️

Thank you so much for supporting my little bakery. Whether you order every week, occasionally treat yourself to a loaf, pick one up from the café, share my posts or recommend me to somebody else — I appreciate every single one of you.

The Garden Bakery wouldn’t be what it is without you, and I’m incredibly grateful. 🌿🍞❤️

The Garden Bakery
Slow bread. Made with love. Worth the wait. 🤎

09/08/2026

☀️ A little note from The Garden Bakery… 🍞🌿

As you all know, we’ve been having some seriously hot weather, and while I’m doing everything I can to keep my sourdough behaving itself… sourdough starter has other ideas. 😂

One thing I’ve learnt with sourdough is I don’t tell it what to do — it tells me! It’s a living, natural process, and temperature plays a huge part in how quickly it ferments and how the finished loaf behaves.

So during this extreme heat, you may notice that some of your loaves look a little different from usual. Some may be slightly flatter or spread a little more, and this is particularly noticeable with my freshly milled wholegrain loaves, which naturally have a different structure anyway.

But please be assured…

❤️ You are not getting any less bread for your money.
🌾 The same amount of flour goes into every loaf.
🥖 The same ingredients and care go into every batch.
🌱 My freshly milled grains are still milled right here at The Garden Bakery.
⏰ Every loaf still goes through its long sourdough fermentation.
😋 And most importantly — they still taste absolutely gorgeous!

A flatter loaf doesn’t mean a lesser loaf. It still contains all that beautiful freshly milled grain, fibre, flavour and goodness — it just might not be winning any height competitions while the weather is this hot. 😂☀️

That’s also part of what makes real sourdough so special. It isn’t produced on a factory line with additives designed to make every loaf identical. It’s flour, water, salt, starter, time… and apparently at the moment, a LOT of sunshine. 😂

So if your loaf arrives looking a little more relaxed than usual, please don’t worry. Inside is still the same Garden Bakery sourdough you know and love. ❤️🍞

Thank you, as always, for supporting my little bakery and embracing the perfectly imperfect nature of real, handmade sourdough.

The Garden Bakery 🌿🍞

06/08/2026