Bake Your Lawn crowdfunding we / you did it!

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Published: Tuesday 25 July 2023

Thanks to 185 lovely people, who collectively pledged 6489 of His Majesty’s pounds sterling through our crowdfunding campaign, Sustain will be able to publish Bake Your Lawn.

Over the next months, Real Bread Campaign coordinator Chris Young will knuckle down to finish writing it, in consultation with some of the people doing fantastic work growing, milling and bread making with children.

We’ll update you with publication date and details towards the end of the year. In the meantime, please keep an eye on our free enewsletter Breadcrumbs, and our social media channels, for the latest on everything else we're up to.

If you make (or simply enjoy eating) genuine sourdough bread, please do get ready to get stuck into Sourdough September. You can find details of all this and more on our website.

When and where can I get a copy of the book?

We're working towards publication in spring 2024 - keep an eye on our enewsletter for updates.

Closer to publication, we'll get back in touch with everyone who selected a copy as a reward when they pledged in the crowdfunding campaign.

The book will be available exclusively through the Real Bread Campaign website for UK delivery. At this stage, we don't have an arrangement with any publisher to make it available outside the UK or as an ebook.

Missed our crowdfunder?

If you missed this opportunity, it's not too late to support the Real Bread Campaign's work in other ways:

Join the Campaign

Make a doughnation

Buy Real Bread books and gifts

Sign up to The Real Bread Loaf Mark scheme

...and read how you can get more involved in the Real Bread Campaign.

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Chris Young
Campaign Coordinator
Real Bread Campaign

Chris Young has coordinated the Real Bread Campaign since March 2009. In addition to lobbying for an Honest Crust Act of better loaf composition, labelling and marketing laws; he created and runs Sourdough September; Real Bread Week; Real Bread For All; Together We Rise promoting therapeutic/social benefits and bread making; the No Loaf Lost surplus reduction initiative; as well as Lessons in Loaf and Bake Your Lawn for schools. He’s the author of the Knead to Know…more microbakery handbook and Slow Dough: Real Bread recipe book; and edits True Loaf magazine.

From 2014-18, Chris also coordinated the London Food Link network, which included editing The Jellied Eel magazine and helping to launch and run the Urban Food Awards. Chris has pulled on his judge’s wig for BOOM Awards, The Cateys, The Great Taste Awards, The Scottish Bread Championship and The World Bread Awards. In 2017, The School of Artisan Food honoured Chris with its first Fellowship.

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