Mornings begin quietly, often before light. The first task is to start a fire in the oven, or prepare the oven for baking bread, or to mix the day’s cookie dough.

The crew’s work day officially begins at 8:30 a.m. Most days though, Mike is walking up the driveway by 8:00. He begins work by putting away the baskets in which the loaves, now baked, were rising; or if we are baking cookies, he will set out the cookie trays and prepare to scoop chocolate chip cookie dough.

When Barry arrives, around a quarter after eight, with his thermos full of some steaming drink, the quiet mood of the early morning has ended, and as the rest of the crew appears, the day’s rising activity soon fills the bakery. So we find ourselves each day, faced with the tasks of mixing the dough, scooping cookies, baking bread, washing dishes. We face the challenges of working together, resolving conflict, keeping our spirits light. Each day we attempt to rise to these challenges as best we can: To bake the best possible bread, the most delicious cookies, and to do it in a place of care, respect, and joy.

Our ingredients are the highest quality

• Organic and local whenever possible, local spelt from Beaver Farm]

• All of our whole grain flour we grind fresh in a slow-moving stone mill

• Our unbleached white flour comes directly from a mill in Minnesota and retains the wheat germ

• We use a combination of organic sugar and Sucanat, a completely unrefined sugar

• Fresh, cultured butter

• Unrefined salt

Everything we make is handmade with care in small quantities

• The bread is mixed and shaped by hand and baked in a wood-fired brick oven

• The bread is all naturally leavened

• The cookies are scooped by hand, then baked, bagged and delivered fresh

• Our Granola is made with presoaked oats, coconut oil, and just enough Sucanat sugar

To purchase our bread, cookies, and granola directly, come and visit us at Sweet Water Baking Company in Camphill Village Kimberton Hills. The Camphill Café, which is open Wednesdays and Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., has cookies and granola available for sale. Bread is available directly from the Bakery, adjacent to the Café, on Tuesday and Friday mornings. Granola is available to be shipped.

Where To Buy

Kimberton Whole Foods

• Collegeville

• Kimberton

• Douglassville

• Downingtown

• Malvern

• Ottsville

• Wyomissing

Lionville Natural Pharmacy

Mom’s Organic Market

Bryn Mawr

Solutions 4 Health

Gateway Shopping Center (Devon)

Online/Buying Groups/CSA’s

Pleasant Pastures, Honeybrook

Sankanac CSA, Kimberton

Shanti Yoga/Spiritual Foods, Bethesda, MD

Also

Red Dog Market

Phoenixville Farmers Market, Phoenixville

Seven Stars Farm Shop, Kimberton

To Contact Us:

Call us at 610-935-1060 or email us.