Real bread option urged

The campaign, which promotes bread made using slow fermentation times and without additives, has published a 140-page handbook, called Knead to Know The Real Bread Starter, to help people in local communities to work together to set up their own bakeries.

Chris Young, project co-ordinator, said: "While some parts of the UK have a good choice of bakers making real bread, there are still large parts of the country where people have to travel up to 30 miles to buy a proper loaf. In certain areas there might not be a big enough market to support a traditional high street baker, but there are community supported models that would work."

Community baking schemes could range from people operating as sole traders, baking in their own homes on a very small scale, through to partnerships of local people in bread clubs and co-operatives.

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