Granton Garden Bakery
Open Saturdays 10am-1pm
@Pilton Community Health Project
Come to the window at the back of the building on Pilton Drive North
All our regular bread is now sold on a 'pay what you can afford' basis. If you're short of cash, there's still delicious healthy fresh bread available no questions asked. Those who can pay a little more, we encourage you to do so.
What makes us different?
Granton Garden Bakery aims to provide an affordable and accessible source of healthy bread to EH5. All our regular breads are sold on a pay-what-you-can-afford basis.
We aren't set up for profit; any proceeds will go to support the work of Granton Community Gardeners, the charity of which the Bakery is a part.
All our bread is made with three priorities in mind: health, flavour and affordability. It has just 3 ingredients: water, salt, and heritage flour grown locally and organically and stoneground by Scotland the Bread, organic flour from Mungoswells in East Lothian, or very occasionally flour from our own Granton-grown wheat. We also use ingredients grown in our own gardens for special breads, changing weekly through the growing season. We ferment our bread slowly, making it more tasty and more digestible.
PRODUCT LIST
All our bread is made from Scottish grown grain and milled flour.
Granton Loaf (900g/700g)
Signature crusty loaf, wholemeal, rye, white.
Ingredients: white wheat flour, wholemeal wheat flour, wholemeal rye flour, water, salt.
Baguette (250g)
Classic French stick made with white flour.
Ingredients: white wheat flour, water, wholemeal rye flour, salt.
Wholemeal tin loaf (1kg)
Made with Scottish wholemeal flour.
Ingredients: wholemeal wheat flour, white wheat flour, water, salt.
Rye tin loaf (500g/1kg)
Delicious, malty sourdough loaf made with Scottish rye flour
Ingredients: wholemeal rye flour, water, white wheat flour, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, linseeds, salt.
White tin loaf (1kg)
Soft white tin loaf, great for sandwiches.
Ingredients: white wheat flour, water, wholemeal rye flour, salt.
Sticky buns (120g) - £1.50 each
Sweet treat filled with seasonal flavours, changing weekly.
Ingredients: white wheat flour, milk, egg, water, butter, sugar, salt.
We look forward to breaking bread with you
Thank you for your support...
This is our first step into commercial production. We want to make high quality, freshly baked bread for our community, more regularly and on a bigger scale, than we could before. Our priorities are: to make food that best nourishes our bodies, takes good care of the soil on which it is grown, and values the work of everyone that goes into producing it. Bread like this takes time and skill.
This means we are different from a system where the main priorities are to make food as cheap as possible, and to make as much profit for very rich people as possible. We don't want food that was only made to try to make money from our community, without caring if it makes us unhealthy, or if soil and people are exploited in the process, or if lots of resources (like fuel to transport things thousands of miles) are used and pollution produced.
We also have an aim to make sure that everyone in Granton has access to good food. So we want to make our bread affordable and available to everyone who'd like to eat it, while being careful not to undervalue the work that goes into it. This is a balance we're trying to find as we go...
We hope you will support us in whatever way you can.