Stone Broke Bread & Books is a micro-bakery focused on making naturally leavened breads that are simple, delicious, nutritionally dense, and highly digestible, with a strong focus on local, sustainably sourced and produced ingredients.
But it's also a whole lot more. Rock Bottom Homestead is a family adhering to a care and attention of our bodies, our relations, and our environment in ruralish Maine. We are homesteaders – what does this mean to us? It means we intentionally direct our lives towards the well-being of all, in this attention to our food, our land, and our community. It means paying attention to not just what we eat and do and how we live but how (and why) we do those things, as well. We experiment with what works and try to learn from what does not.
Stone Broke Bread is one result of this ethos and experimentation. It began, as so many things do, with friends, baking and breaking bread with friends, and has grown organically into a small, sustainable, community centered project. We are focused on making great bread and the things that can come of sharing that bread with a larger community.
We attend to the details with an eye toward locality, accessibility, sustainability, and community building. This is why we use local, organic, and sustainably produced products and materials whenever possible. This is why we work to keep our bread at a reasonable price. This is why we work with local food accessibility programs, donating 5% of our gross income (yes, gross income, not profit) to the efforts. This is why we use solar energy to power our kitchen and our home. This is why we strive to connect directly with our customers whenever possible, face to face if not eye to eye.
We hope that this translates from our home to yours.
But it's also a whole lot more. Rock Bottom Homestead is a family adhering to a care and attention of our bodies, our relations, and our environment in ruralish Maine. We are homesteaders – what does this mean to us? It means we intentionally direct our lives towards the well-being of all, in this attention to our food, our land, and our community. It means paying attention to not just what we eat and do and how we live but how (and why) we do those things, as well. We experiment with what works and try to learn from what does not.
Stone Broke Bread is one result of this ethos and experimentation. It began, as so many things do, with friends, baking and breaking bread with friends, and has grown organically into a small, sustainable, community centered project. We are focused on making great bread and the things that can come of sharing that bread with a larger community.
We attend to the details with an eye toward locality, accessibility, sustainability, and community building. This is why we use local, organic, and sustainably produced products and materials whenever possible. This is why we work to keep our bread at a reasonable price. This is why we work with local food accessibility programs, donating 5% of our gross income (yes, gross income, not profit) to the efforts. This is why we use solar energy to power our kitchen and our home. This is why we strive to connect directly with our customers whenever possible, face to face if not eye to eye.
We hope that this translates from our home to yours.