The Sourdough School

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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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To change the system, you have to understand the system.

2016 Sandor Katz spent three weeks at The Sourdough School with the team, teaching and sharing his incredible knowledge of fermentation.

Our Community Spans across many disciplines.  The things all our contributors have in common is a belief in sharing knowledge of how to support both physical and mental health and supporting the environment is key to a sustainable and equitable future.

In addition to the in-house team of Lifestyle Medicine health experts and bakers, Each part of the syllabus on both  the clinical module of Baking as lifestyle Medicine (BALM) Diploma and The Baking  Certificate is supported by esteemed individuals teaching their area of expertise. This incredible generosity brings unique insights and expertise from many esteemed guest contributors, who have provided knowledge, lectures, conversations, and research and have supported the change as part of the social activism and systems change program.

 

Social Justice

Our work on supporting social justice through the democratisation of bread has only just begun. Last year we awarded three times our turnover in scholarships and bursaries.

This year our graduates are socially prescribing BALM to their patients, and none of this would have been possible without some of the world's leading experts donating their time, sharing their knowledge, and contributing to the conversation.

 

Professor Tim Spector

dr carmen piernas sanchez

Dr Carmen Piernas-Sanchez

Dr will bulsiewicz

Dr Will Bulsiewicz

Dr Phil Howell

Dr Phil Howell

Professor Michael Gänzle

Professor Michael Gänzle

Felice Jacka

Professor Felice Jacka

Viola Sampson

Viola Sampson

Eve Kalinik

Eve Kalinik

Dan Saladino

Dan Saladino

Peter Reinhart

Peter Reinhart

professor rob dunn

Professor Rob Dunn

Dr Alex Davidson

Max Blachman-Gentile podcast

Max Blachman-Gentile

Doctor Miguel Toribio-Mateas – former Scientific Advisor

Dr. Amrita Vijay, Director of Research

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