The Sourdough School

BALM – Proven as one of the healthiest approaches to bread in the world.

Based in the walled gardens of Dr. Vanessa Kimbell's beautiful Victorian home in rural Northamptonshire, UK, we tutor individuals and train bakers and healthcare professionals in Baking as Lifestyle Medicine (BALM). Personalising bread to your lifestyle, gut microbiome, and unique genetics for optimal health—tailoring fermentation, fibre, and diversity so that your daily bread becomes the foundation of your health.

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Questions are answered in the Tuesday Open Live Sessions

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This session is the way I manage all my student’s admin.

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In recent years I receive a very high volume of AI-generated spam. Despite the best software I must filter through over 100 very realistic reading emails daily, which is time-consuming and as a result I miss communications.

This is also a matter of time and getting to know you. From years of teaching, I know that issues that can be resolved in a single live Zoom session can often take days of back-and-forth emails, so this approach, whilst perhaps not conventional, is significantly more expedient.

These sessions are recorded but not published and this it the way all admin is resolved because it is a direct and efficient conduit for managing the small administrative tasks and I can make sure my students receive the necessary support. By handling issues personally during these sessions, I can provide immediate responses, which is a far more expedient method than lengthy email exchanges.

Please do attend.  If you can’t show put your camera on you can always use the chat.

PLEASE NOTE: there are no live sessions during the School holidays. Please use WhatsApp for emergency our select Contact Us section for other options.

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If you would like to ask a question please fil in the form below. The sessions are NOT shown on the catch up, so you will need to attend live. You are muted and asked to be respectful of the other students in the meeting.  It is an open session and I am happy to chat with people once I have answered any questions sent in, and I have enough time.

Sessions are 45 minutes long. I am very sorry, but this is the time limit as I deal with private matters, accounts/billing issues from 4.45pm – 5.30pm  – please mention this in your message or in the session and we can have a private meeting

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Session are every Tuesday  4pm ( London Time ) and run through out this term. My WhatApp number is  +44 (0)7813308301

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All reasonable care is taken when advising about health aspects of bread, but the information that we share is not intended to take the place of treatment by a qualified medical practitioner. You must seek professional advice if you are in any doubt about any medical condition. Any application of the ideas and information contained on this website is at the reader's sole discretion and risk.

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