About Us

Dragan and Penny set up Love Loaves, the smallest bakery in the world, in Oxford, 2008. We established The Artisan Bakery School in Devon 2012, running workshops and selling bread and wood fired pizza to local people. We now focus solely on teaching, and have thousands of students from all over the world, both in person and online.

In our grandparents’ time, learning to cook and bake was as fundamental as learning to walk. Things have changed. The transmission of basic life skills from parent to child has been interrupted by a million and one modern distractions. If people only ate what they cooked ‘from scratch’, the nation would be starving.  

That is why we are so passionate about teaching people how to bake their own bread. In the age of the takeaway, it is almost an act of resistance. Or at least a demonstration of resilience. Buy organic flour, support organic farming, filter your water, feed your sourdough starter, and bake your daily bread.  It is a grounding and deeply satisfying process. One day you will be able to teach it to your children.

We encourage you to join organisations such as The Campaign for Real Bread, a highly dynamic source of support and information for artisan bakers, and The Soil Association. This charity is doing vital work in promoting organic, bio-dynamic and regenerative farming and food consumption practices. We also support The Campaign for Real Farming – you only have to read our friend, author, biologist and activist Colin Tudge to see why.