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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Your Assessment & Graduation | Research Level

This part of the syllabus is still under construction

I am currently working on your last task but please listen to the audio below.

Your penultimate tasks is to create and share your own bake that is in line with our bread protocol and we are working on creating this as a new category of student recipes.

Your final task is to nominate and support a young student and share the knowledge, and we are inviting you to stay as part of the club for another year.

You have until the 1st of September to submit your graduation recipe. It will need testing and approving by the 2nd week of September

We will unveil the new category as your graduation ceremony and send out your certificates in the last week of September.

We will also be asking some students to stay on and take a mentorship role in the club.

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Syllabus for Welcome to the Sourdough Club

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Total Time: 27 hours and 0 minutes

LessonsTimeWhat you will learn

- YOUR TURN

  1. Your Turn - Core Knowledge - 1575 mins
1575 mins

The most important part of your course.

- BRIEF ON YOUR GRADUATION PROCESS

  1. Brief on your graduation process - Live Tutorial - 45 mins
45 mins

How your course graduation process will work.

- FEEDBACK

  1. Feedback - Task - mins
mins

No course is perfect, and our syllabus is a living one, which means we can always improve. Your feedback is incredibly valuable to understand how we can make this course more enjoyable, relevant and that the knowledge is applicable.  Please tell us what you liked and what you feel could be improved.  Thank you.

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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