BBC website article 13/11/09

The rise of Oxford’s mini bakery

Wolvercote’s Love Loaves bakery is only two meters squared but it is producing some of the most popular bread in town! Dragan is a magician by trade but this year he and his wife Penny decided to branch out and try their hand at baking. They transformed their tiny outhouse at their cottage in Wolvercote into probably the world’s smallest bakery.

Every morning they get up and bake loaves which they then carry across the road to their local village shop. They make about 250 loaves a week in a kitchen that is only two metres squared. These are then sold at The Post Box and the extra customers are providing vital business for the community store.

The owner Carl Keeble says: “We lost the Post Office a year ago so I’ve been looking for things to do just to replace the lack of salary there. It’s one of the things that’s keeping us going, it’s absolutely brilliant.”

The warm loaves, served fresh every morning, mean that there are customers queuing in the shop before they arrive and it is not just the residents of Wolvercote that are keen on the bread. “We get people coming from all over Oxford for them,” says Carl.