Open Saturdays 10am-1pm

Currently at Pilton Community Health Project, 73 Boswall Parkway, EH5 2PW

Come to the window at the back of the building on Pilton Drive North

What makes us different?

Granton Garden Bakery aims to provide an affordable and accessible source of healthy bread to our local community. All our regular breads are sold on a pay-what-you-can-afford basis, direct from the bakery on Saturday mornings.  (We also sell some fixed price at local market stalls).

We believe it's important for our community to have control over something as important as our food supply, so we are working to strengthen this local economy, creating good local jobs, and working with those we trust in caring for the soil and ecosystems that produce our food.

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We also aim to support other local food producers and source our ingredients from as close by as possible, including fruit harvested from our community gardens; fresh organic eggs from Croft Organics in Penicuik; and flour from Scotland the Bread in Fife and Mungoswells in East Lothian. We also grow some of our own wheat, and are working to scale up this production in partnership with nearby Lauriston Farm. 

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All of our bread undergoes a slow fermentation process, mainly using sourdough.  This takes a lot longer than the ultra-processed bread you can buy in supermarkets and creates particularly tasty bread. In addition, as the proteins in the flour are more broken down, many people find it easier to digest.  

Proper sourdough bread only needs 3 ingredients: flour, water, and salt (plus time and skill!)

The best bread should be for everyone!

Standard Product List

All our bread is made from grains milled in Scotland.

We also regularly stock products from our partners and suppliers, such as 

🥚 eggs from Croft Organics

🌾 flour from Mungoswells Malt & Milling, Scotland The Bread and Lapwings Community Mill

🥕 vegetables from Lauriston Farm

🌿 teas and tinctures from Grass Roots Remedies Co-operative

🍄‍🟫 mushrooms from Rhyze Mushrooms

🍝 pasta from Newton Dee & Lapwings Community Mill

Catering

Looking for some delicious bread for an event? We would be happy to help out! 

Contact sales@grantonbakery.co.uk  to see what we can do for you. 

Thank you for your support...

 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 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, (we pay our bakers at least the Real Living Wage).  This is a balance we're trying to find as we go...    

It's definitely a challenge to run a commercially viable enterprise while pursuing all of these aims, but we think this challenge is worth the effort.  Please support us if you agree! Any proceeds from the Bakery will be reinvested towards these aims and support the wider work of our parent charity: Granton Community Gardeners (Registered Charity number: SC047087). 

Granton Garden Bakery is a trading name of Granton Community Bakery and Kitchen Limited.  This company is a wholly owned trading subsidiary of Granton Community Gardeners SCIO (SC047087).  All profits go towards supporting the wider work of the charity.