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Experienced Artisan Baker Needed for Community Bakery expansion and development:
Are you an experienced baker (3+ years professional baking experience), who might be interested to join our small team and help us develop our innovative community bakery, as we embark on some exciting expansion plans?
Are you good at leading a team, training new staff members, creating and refining systems and schedules, solving problems, dealing with suppliers and customers, and have a proven track record of baking excellence?
Do you share our values and aims? (see below)
If so we’d like to hear from you..
Please email lisa@grantoncommunitygardeners.org with a CV and brief introduction to yourself and we can arrange a conversation..
We are not advertising a specific role at present, but we anticipate needing an additional senior staff member within the next 4months. Hours, pay and start date all negotiable.
We believe the best bread should be for everyone! We bake high quality nutritious sourdough bread and work to make it accessible and affordable to all in our community. For example we sell all our regular loaves on a ‘Pay what you can’ basis on Saturday mornings in the middle of Granton.
We are also committed to strengthening local food supply chains, sourcing our ingredients as locally as possible. We’re passionate about grain varieties and how they are grown (eg. working with Lauriston agroecology farm). We are working to set up a small mill, and developing innovative product lines using locally grown ingredients.
We share and seek to advance the aims of the food sovereignty movement which are: 1/ Food is for people. 2/ Food producers are valued. 3/ Food systems are localised. 4/ There is democratic control over the food system. 5/ We build knowledge and skills. 6/ Our food system works with nature.
Our bakery was set up within grassroots local charity: Granton Community Gardeners. It has been running on a small scale since 2019 and is highly valued within the community. We’re committed to serving and strengthening the community we’re part of. This includes increasing access to high quality nutritious food, promoting understanding of and connection to the food supply, creating local employment and training opportunities, valuing and celebrating the wealth of local cultural diversity and expertise, and supporting more opportunities for people to gather and connect with each other around the production and sharing of food. Any profits generated go to supporting the wider work of Granton Community Gardeners.