The Sourdough School

WORKSHOPS || ONLINE TRAINING | || RETREATS || PERSONALISED BREAD || GUT HEALTH

BAKING WITH THE HANDS OF AN ARTISAN AND THE MIND OF A CLINICIAN

Transform your health and wellbeing through your everyday bread. Run from the walled gardens of Dr Vanessa Kimbell's beautiful Victorian home in rural Northamptonshire, we run workshops, retreats and an in depth online Diploma in Baking as Lifetyle Medicine. Book in for a chat today

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IN PERSON: WORKSHOPS & RETREATS

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PERSONALISED 1:1 NUTRIGENTIC BREAD CONSULTATIONS

A three-step personalised bread assessment uses your health history, with the option of nutrigenetics and or gut testing, to create bread uniquely matched to you. It’s a rare approach that can uncover why some breads work for your body — and others don’t — helping to support comfort, digestion, and wellbeing.

DESIGN BREAD FOR YOUR UNIQUE BIOLOGY

CREATING LOAVES THAT SUPPORT BOTH THE MICROBIOME AND THE MIND

PRACTITIONER LEVEL: OUR FLAGSHIP 2 YEAR ONLINE DIPLOMA

Now in its 10th year – The Diploma in Nutrition and Digestibility of Bread teaches you to personalise bread: enrolment opens  January 2027. Our flagship course – two years online training integrating artisan bread baking with nutrigenetics and gut microbiome science. Includes your own genetic test and personalised report. The only programme in the world where you learn to bake bread designed for your DNA. Book a free 15-minute consultation.

THE SOURDOUGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA IN PERSONALISING BREAD

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