Baking and retailing a diverse range of flour and grain

Beyond commodity wheat. Copyright: Better Food Traders

Published: Tuesday 7 October 2025

Online, Tuesday, 4 November 2025, 1-3pm GMT

Want to learn more about flour, from seed selection, to farming, milling, baking and trading? Interested in local grain economies and how you can get involved as a baker, trader, or citizen?

In this two-hour Better Food Traders workshop, you'll learn about the benefits and methods of working with local, agroecologically-grown grains and flours in your baking, trading and at home.

The session is led by Real Bread Campaign supporter Kimberley Bell, who's a baker and shopkeeper at Small Food Bakery, and also co-founder of UK Grain Lab and Nottingham Mill Coop.

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This workshop is for

People working in bakeries who want to start incorporating non-commodity wheats.
Microbakers who want to explore working with local flour.
Shop owners and traders who want to better understand the world of non commodity wheat and how they can participate in their local grain economy.
Anyone wanting to learn more about the theory and practice of changing our relationship with how we produce, trade and consume grain/cereals.

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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 in the UK; he created and runs initiatives including: Sourdough September; Real Bread Week; Real Bread For All; Together We Rise, promoting therapeutic/social benefits of bread making; No Loaf Lost surplus reduction guidance; and Lessons in Loaf for schools. He’s the author of the Knead to Know…more microbakery handbook, Slow Dough: Real Bread recipe book and Bake Your Lawn grow-a-loaf guidebook; and edits True Loaf magazine.

From 2014-18, Chris also coordinated Sustain's London Food Link network, which included editing The Jellied Eel magazine and helping to launch and run the Urban Food Awards with the Mayor of London’s office. 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, and in 2025 he was named joint Person of The Year by Slow Food in The UK.

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