Meet The Thoughtful Bread Company

It would be nigh on impossible to meet somebody with quite as much enthusiasm about bread and sustainability as Duncan Glendinning - and Thoughtful Bread now have the "Greenest trader of the year" award to prove it, having been voted top greenie in the national "How Green Is Your Market" competition!

From his "eco-pod" at Green Park Station Duncan chats with passers-by, telling the stories behind the range of breads he sells. They include sourdough, vintage cheddar (made with cheese from the Cheddar Gorge Cheese company), Irish soda, multi-seed wholemeal, organic spelt walnut and raisin, wild garlic and herb, and a beetroot bread made with whole juiced beetroots.

Each loaf is hand-rolled by his baker and business partner Patrick Ryan every morning, using extended proving periods and then baked in a wood-fired oven in the bakery on the outskirts of Bath.

On Saturdays (when there is a farmers’ market in the same covered area as the shop), they make 100 loaves, which often sell out. Duncan is passionate about using the most seasonal and locally-sourced or foraged ingredients. In the wild garlic season, he was up at 5am picking the stuff for that day’s loaves.

The Thoughtful Bread Company have been at Green Park Station since early 2009, when the business was set up.  You can visit the bakery, and other traders, six days a week; or come down to our Saturday market with over 30 stalls, including the Bath Farmers Market.