The Village Bakery

26/05/2026

I have realised that I've never actually shared my/our full story with you. Some people have heard it in our conversations, but it really was a crazy, unbelievable, magical & fated journey to get here.

It's a long one, but have a read :)

Thank you Cornwall, for bringing me home 💕

17/05/2026

There are so, so many new people here! I can't explain how grateful I am! Thank you for finding us, for following, for messaging, for knocking on our door to see if we 'know where the bakery is?' Thank you all.

Our daughter is really unwell at the moment, so I need to give the bakery a week off whilst Joe & I help her recover, and recover some sleep ourselves.

The bakery isn't the hard part, when things are good at home, I have a great schedule, time off, a really nice workflow. I mean yes - I work a lot, but it is all manageable, we work around nursery hours etc.

But it becomes impossible to juggle both when our little girl is so poorly and no one in the house is sleeping. The sleep deprivation this weekend has been truly unbearable for all of us, around hospital trips and sleep torture of her waking every 20 minutes in agony at night, has been super hard for us.

We're trying our best, but I think a week off is definitely the best way to go right now. We will be back, I promise! And I hope you'll all still be here 💕💕

See you next week 🍞 ❤️✨️

All our love,

Emily & Joe - Tywardreath Bakery 🍞❤️

13/05/2026

Hey! With all the new faces around here from the ITV feature, I wanted to introduce myself properly 😊

Welcome to our little bread corner of Cornwall 🍞✨️

12/05/2026

It’s been gently brought to my attention recently that some of my posts and stories have perhaps been coming across a little differently than I intended ❤️

I share the early starts, the long days, the chaos and the exhaustion mostly because I have always wanted this page to feel honest. Social media can so often make life and small businesses look endlessly polished and perfect, and I never wanted to contribute to that illusion, because it simply isn't true.

The reality is that running a bakery, especially one centred around bread, is physically huge at times. Bread takes space, time, lifting, shaping, proofing, baking, cleaning, organising and a lot of hours. Add motherhood and family life into the mix and yes, sometimes I definitely do sound a little tired 😂 because I am haha!

But please know that we are okay ❤️ and I am incredibly moved by your concerns.

Are we busy? Very!
Exhausted sometimes? Absolutely.
But also incredibly grateful and proud.

Every single order, every sell out, every queue at our little market stall still genuinely blows me away. I don’t feel burdened by your support, I feel incredibly lucky because of it.

I think perhaps I need to share more of the beauty alongside the hard work sometimes too. Because whilst this business is demanding, it has also brought us community, purpose, opportunity, friendships and way more support than I could ever put into words.

So thank you, always, for supporting our little bakery. It means far more than you probably realise 🫶🏼

11/05/2026

Wonderful news today. A few of you will know that we had ITV round to film a little while ago - and here's the final piece 😊

Small bakeries and especially home bakeries like ours, sadly get little to no recognition in comparison to larger commercial bakeries. So this is a huge, huge win for us & all independent bakeries feeding their villages!

A massive thank you to Charlotte for the idea & for filming so respectfully.

https://www.itv.com/watch/news/award-winning-microbakeries-want-to-upscale-but-the-cost-of-opening-a-shop-is-unaffordable/kqh6nzl?fbclid=Iwb21leARuq81jbGNrBG6rrWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHm7X-1WJBjdkroflaVYGssShYQZ1_xa52MLtWfaQkgUuxXPwOeLb2Oc3bS_P_aem_aPQKGIoVs7zimnKqxBdfLw

Watch the latest from ITV News - The Federation of Small businesses says while 85% of Cornish businesses are microbusinesses the cost of scaling up is a huge undertaking

11/05/2026

Friday, Saturday & Sunday consisted of 10pm + bedtimes and 2am wakeups. Safe to say I'm exhausted!

Here's a small glimpse at why. Honestly I see other creators or businesses do DITL videos and I just don't understand how there's the time! There's a whole bunch I forgot to record; making custard, rhubarb jam, the crumble, roasting red onions off and a tonne more. But when you're in the zone, doing every single thing yourself, i just cant see how theres any time to produce these daily or even remember to film at all! I take my hat off to you 😂🫶

Anyway, enjoy! 💕

08/05/2026

More scenes from the bakery as requested! ☺️✨️ swipe to the end for focaccia filth - sorry!

And I know I said this last time but i still cant believe this isn't even half the bread.

There were still another 24 loaves to bake off, and another 40 to prep before we could even think about being finished for the day.

I think people often imagine “small home bakery” as a few loaves here and there, but bread takes up serious physical space. Every loaf needs hours of fermentation, shaping by hand, bannetons, fridge space, cooling space, oven space. It was around 8 hours of baking alone this morning. Luckily my amazing RM Rory can handle it she truly is a workhorse 🙏✨️

Some mornings, especially ones like this, I stand back and genuinely can't believe the scale we've grown to from our family kitchen.

Whilst this might still technically be a home bakery, the output now honestly is closer to a small commercial bakery with a team, and day/night shift workers. And yet every loaf is still mixed, shaped, scored and baked by me ☺️

It's exhausting at times. Really exhausting.

But seeing the racks fill up like this every single week, is such a pleasure and a sight that makes it all worth it.

Thank you ☺️😍💕🫶

08/05/2026

🥖 Fresh Bread Lovers… This One’s for You 🥖

We’re delighted to be welcoming back the lovely team from The Village Bakery on Tywardreath this Sunday 💛

Last time Emily joined us, the smell of her freshly baked sourdough loaves filled the entire market… and they sold out in no time 👀

Expect beautiful fresh bread, proper crusty sourdough, and that unbeatable fresh-from-the-oven smell we all love.

✨ Top tip: get there early if you want to secure your loaf! ✨

📍 Illogan Food & Craft Market
🗓 This Sunday
⏰ 10am–2pm

03/05/2026

A beautiful quote ❤️

Be an artist ✨️