The Sourdough School

Baking eating and sharing bread to improve physical and mental health

Using a robust evidence-based baking protocol combining the evidence of thousands of years of baking with modern clinical insights, we offer comprehensive training to bakers and healthcare professionals, providing students with the tools to use baking in everyday practice as a wellness intervention.
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Baking as Lifestyle Medicine for Bakers and Clinicians

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Partnerships for Industrial Bakeries

What if you could move industrial bread away from damaging our health and the environment to the forefront as a significant factor in shaping our lifestyle and health?

You can. This is what BALM does and more. Baking as Lifestyle Medicine is underpinned by Diversity Bread™ made with our Botanical Blend Flour™.

For over a decade, we’ve developed a remarkable system designed to impact the health of your consumers positively and support the environment. Our BALM protocol involves the incorporation of our innovative botanical blend flour, diversity porridges, and probiotic finishes into bread production.

This is more than just change; it’s a social revolution.

Licence fess directly support scholarship places, and fees are costed in number scholarships places and or social prescriptions. We will display your details as an awards scholarship sponsor and acknowledge your support as part of the marketing and support on your licence.

How do you set up a The BALM Bakery Licence?

In the very first place your team join us here at the Sourdough School. It’s important to note that these precious moments of learning are captured on film. As your team trains, we also developing a unique botanical blend specifically for you. We experiment, creating variations of this blend.  We chronicle the process from the fields to the factory—filming the training, the farmers nurturing the soil, and the birth of the bread in the production facility.

Development your blend and bake it here.

Your team joins the Educational Programme  and gain a profound understanding of the impact bread can have on our health.  You are invited to bake here with us at The School and the bread.  We’l share with you how BALM and Diversity Bread doesn’t merely feed people; it nourishes them and supports the environment. You learn how your bakery can make bread that has a tangible impact on health. When the smell of fresh bread fills the air in your bakery, it will be a testament to the health you’re cultivating in your community and the planet. You’ll be supporting healthcare providers who need a solution, helping fund their training and backing the social prescribing programme.

In between all of this, we might even develop some additional products over a shared lunch. And when the bread—the fruit of our labour—is finally made, it’s not just a cause for celebration, it’s a moment of transformation. Each bread that leaves your facility carries with it a QR code, a portal to the video. It is authentic, and isn’t just about producing exquisite bread; it’s about communicating and affirming to your customers your commitment to supporting health and the planet.

Creating your Blend

We can bespoke and create you a blend or you can use one of our existing blends.  We work closely with our partner, Hodmedod’s, who helps us source ingredients that have been sustainably produced.

Our Botanical Blend Flour and Diversity Bread Products

Our Botanical Blend flour and diversity of bread products embody gold-standard regenerative farming practices and customer empowerment. Crafted to enhance gut diversity and promote environmental health, these products give customers the power to support their health and contribute to environmental sustainability through their dietary choices.

Positioning You as an Industry Leader

The integration of our products into your bread production offers transformative benefits. It positions you as a leader in this field, contributing to an unprecedented shift in the bread industry. All licensing fees facilitate The Sourdough School’s education awards programme and nourishment education, supporting systemic change from soil to the brain.

Supported by Our Expert Team

Our team, led by Vanessa Kimbell, is composed of medical experts, nutritional specialists, and comprehensive communication support. With a simple QR code, your customers can access informative and inspiring videos that enhance understanding and provide support. This initiative also presents an authentic and connective marketing opportunity, taking consumers on a journey from the soil to the farmer, to the bakery, and finally to gut health.

Client Relationships

In a competitive market where many clients are pressuring bakeries to reduce costs, we offer a strong differentiator: health and wellness products which also benefit the environment. BALM provides a significant competitive edge.We’re not alone on this adventure—with over 500,000 Instagram followers, we’ve got a global family ready to see what cool things we’re up to and we’ll support the narrative and marketing.

Join Our Mission

This collaboration will offer your clients a comprehensive range of products designed to support digestion and overall health. It will also help your customers appreciate the vital role of bread in their diet and the environment.  As part of the marketing of BALM, you would have your own page.  This would acknowledge your participation and have details of your partnership.

 

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All reasonable care is taken when writing about health aspects of bread, but the information it contains 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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