the BROCKWELL BAKE Association

The Brockwell Bake started as an annual real baking competion and meet in Brockwell Park, Lambeth, South London in 2008. In 2009/10 we expanded our activities aimed at promoting knowledge and choice in baking in our local area to include growing heritage wheats on allotments, school and community gardens and with farmers close to London. We stone mill and bake with our wheat through out the year and at events such as the Lambeth Urban Green Fair and the Feast on the Bridge, The Mayor's Thames Festival. We also do real baking workshops with local schools. We produce a limted amount of flour and bread with grain from our partner local farmers available around South London see below.

NEWS: Brockwell Bake Flour and Bread now available – in limited editions!

We are now producing a limited amount of flour using grain from our partner farmers, two accredited biodynamic farms south from London, from the Duveens at Hophurst Farm near East Grinstead, W. Sussex and the Brockmans on Perry Court Farm near Canterbury. We also get grain from Luddesdown Organic Farms near Gravesend, Kent.

For the 2011/12 season we are milling a 50/50 mix of Paragon and Magister wheats. Our “Light Weald” flour is sifted to about 71% extraction which results is a light brown moderate strength bread baking flour that the customers seem to really like.

This is the freshest stone-ground flour you can get in London, never on the shelf or stall more than a week and often just a few hours from being milled. This means natural oils and enzymes are at their absolute optimum for activity and flavour.

With our freshly milled flour each week we bake 30 or so sourdough loaves in our mobile wood fired oven. Our signature loaf is the "Brixton Sour" which contains 17% of our Rye flour blended with our Weald Light wheat flour. We also do regular specials including "Potato and Rosemary", "Lilford Malt House" and wholemeal.

You can find our flour and bread at

Kennington Farmers Market on the Brockman’s stall (lots of nice vegetables there also) which is towards the Brixton Road side of the market, 9am – 3pm Saturdays.

From the Duveen’s stall (lots of very good quality organic and bio-dynamic meat) at their railway arch, 104 Druid Street SE1 2HQ behind London Bridge station, 9am – 1pm Saturdays

Brixton Cornercopia in the “Brixton Village” end of Brixton market (lots of lovely home produced things in jars as well as top locally sourced ingredients beautifully prepared by chef Ian, lunch served Wednesday to Sunday and supper Thursday to Saturday). Our Brixton Sour bread is normally on the menu at weekends

For orders over 5 Kilos you can pay £1.50 per kilo with free delivery if you live within North Lambeth and Southwark south to the bottom of Brixton Hill! Phone 0207 733 3879 to order.

Bread baking recipes and calculator now available HERE

IMAGE GALLERIES: BROCKWELL BAKE 2010/09/08

Search the Brockwell Bake galleries for words in image captions.		winter wheat 2011/12		allotment 2012
Feast on the Bridge, 10/9/2011		Brockwell Bake harvest at Hophurst Farm 21/8/11 Our harvest event on Hophurst Farm of Jacob’s Ladder Farms to gather in the wheat to be threshed, winnowed, milled and baked for the "Feast of Forgotten Fish" at the Feast on the Bridge, the Mayor’s Thames Festival. Reaping with scythe and cradle video here		BBA developments 2011, reel sieve, thresher/blower, dough trough, new tins, scythe and its cradle for reaping reel sieve video here, reaping with scythe and cradle here
new Brixton wood fired ovens, Bread Bread bakery, October 2011 Terre Blanche twin wood fired ovens - nice		BBA expedition Bretagne - late July 2011 Visit in July 2011 by BBA members Andy Forbes and Vincent Talleu to the Breton village of Laurenan to check out the mills made by Samuel Poilâne of type "à meule de pierre type Astrié" to see whether right mill for BBA. Samuel with his partner Valérie Poilâne-Tabart also bake bread for the neighborhood every week as well as supplying organic veggie boxes. Lovely to also to meet again after their London trip their three very lively lovely sons Ismaël, Jason and Perig Poilâne-Tabart. We also made very interesting visit to the peasant farmer/bakers Julie and Florian on their "Ferme de Carafray" and their heritage wheat trials.		BBA at Melton Mowbray country show, June 2011 Our second annual BBA trip to the memorable Melton Mowbray Country Show
Spring sowings, 2011		Brockwell Bake events 2011 - miscellany		Winter wheat, 2010/11 Our second season of heritage wheat growing.
Brockwell Bake flour and baking		Dutch windmiller/millstone maker visit Visit to molensteenmakerij, Hans Tituelar’s windmill and millstone workshop near Nijmegen, Netherlands, November 2010.		Feast on the Bridge - 2010 Our first Feast on the Bridge.
Brockwell Bake, Lambeth Urban Green Fair 2010 Saturday, 5th September - our first attempt to do the whole works at one event - thresh, winnow, mill and bake		Brockwell Bake local events 2010		new oven for Brockwell Bake 3D animations of oven designs Mk I here and Mk II here and Mk III with trailer here - requires Virtools plug-in.
Wheat Harvest - 10/8/10 Pics by RAA plotholder Elkin Atwell as we try late night to finish harvest on plot 35 and 36 before the start of a wet August 2010.		Spring Wheat, South London, 2010 Sowings around South London on school, community gardens and allotments during March 2010 including 16 heritage wheats (early cultivars and may be a few landraces) from the John Innes Centre’s BBSRC Small Grain Cereal Collections.		Winter wheat, London 2009/10 Winter planting around South London on allotments, community gardens, school gardens and a bit of guerilla planting
Trip to John Innes Centre 28/7/10 Trip to inspect heritage wheat trials in the John Innes Centre’s fields near Norwich as guest of Mike Ambrose, curator of the BBSRC Small Grain Cereal Collections		Winter Wheat, Catalonia, 2009/10		inside Brixton Windmill
Tivissa, Oct. 2009, oven firing and wheat planting After a long wait, since the oven was uncovered and dome rebuilt in 1998, finally manage to get a new oven door together and make pizza and bake decent bread in Gary and Adrian’s oven 9th October 2009. Plus dig over the huerta behind the lower caseta and a patch of the meanie (fennel) field and do a first sowing of the Letts Winter mix of traditional UK wheat.		Brockwell Bake 2009		Melton Mowbray: Whissendine Windmill & pizzas at the Wood Fair
1st annual Brockwell Bake, August 31st 2008		Pro wood-fired oven, London Pics from the wood fired B & B oven on the Old Kent Road with bakers Dave and Vincent Talleu (his website with more bread pics here). BAKERY ACTION ANIMATION HERE		oven and mill, Pyrenees, France a few pics showing baker/mill set up in Pyrnees. We believe the mill/bakery supplied bread to about five local villages so quite big by local standards. Oven was of the ’gueulard’ design.

REVIEW: Brockwell Bake 2009/10/11

Traditional wheat from Madeira provided to Brockwell Bake by Rosendale allotment holder Antonio Luis

During the 2009/10 and 2010/11 seasons we sowed wheat in the Lambeth and Southwark area including samples of early cultivar and UK landraces of spring wheat from the BBSRC - Small Grain Cereal Collections at the following locations.

Community Gardens and Farms, Hyde Farm Community Garden SW12 Arden House, Lambeth Walk SE11 5QH, Community Garden Mayow Park Sydenham SE26, Brookwood House Council Estate Community Garden, Southwark SE1, Guinness Trust Estate Allotments Brixton SW9, The Onion Shed @ Roots and Shoots SE11 6DN, Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses SE24 9BJ, Vauxhall City Farm (with local Primary School) SE11 5HS, Cowley Estate Farm SW9 6LZ, Sutton Community Farm SM6 0SH, Myatt's Fields Park Project Group SE5

Schools and Colleges, Rosendale Primary School SE21 8LR, Friars Primary Foundation School SE1 0RF, Walnut Tree Walk Primary School SE11 6DS, Reay Primary School SW9 0EN, Streatham and Clapham High School SW16 1AW, Hackney Community College N1 6HQ, Sprouting 56 - Camberwell School of Arts SE5 8UF, Prior Weston Primary School EC1Y 8JA, The Elmgreen School (Secondary) SE27 9BZ and Brindishe Lee Primary School SE12 8NA

We have also delivered a programme of three wheat and baking workshops to Key Stage 2 at four of these schools, Rosendale Primary School, Walnet Tree Walk Primary, Reay Primary School and Friars Primary School.

In addition we supply heritage wheat seed for school and community sowing projects to community groups and schools outside of London across the UK.

EVENTS Aside from our two big harvest events, Lambeth Urban Green Fair and the Feast on the Bridge, The Mayor's Thames Festival we also particpated at a number of local (and not so local) events, food junctions at Camley Street Nature Reserve, Kings Cross, Melton Mowbray Country show Lincolnshire, the Brixton Windmill Festival, Lambeth Country Show, Cowley Estate "Community Farm" summer fun day and Hyde Farm Community Farm Autumn Feast.