The Traveling Baker

Fry's Red Wheat Bread, a Victoria based, upstart micro-bakery built around a mobile brick oven and the idea of a single baker working to create a community around great bread.

Traveling baker Byron Fry taught himself to bake 3 years ago before apprenticing at the Italian Bakery in Victoria BC. During the summer of 2010 he rode his motorcycle 16 000km around North America, visiting bakeries in Montreal, New York, North Carolina and Portland. In NC he met the baker Richard Miscovich who inspired him to come home to BC, build an oven, and bake bread. The historical name and logo of Fry's Red Wheat Bread was passed down from his great-grandfather whom owned and operated a bakery in Victoria at the turn of the century.

This is his first year farm-based operation in Metchosin. You will find him at the James Bay Community Market Saturdays 9-3 and the Metchosin Farmers Market 11-2 as well as the Oak Bay Night Market, third Wednesday of the month.

Good Will

Hello Folks,

Just wanted to put a slightly ambiguous note out there and encourage you to send as much goodwill our way as possible. We may have found a new home for the bakery but there are still many hurdles to go so keep us in you thoughts and I’ll update you all as soon as I know what is happening.

This weekend you will find our bread and pastries at Niagara Grocery and Fairfield Market on Saturday and Sunday, and bread at the Broken Paddle and Tom Henry’s Farm Store on Sunday.

Fairfield Market and Niagara Grocery have been so fantastic with us over this fall and now into the New Year, demand is really picking up. Saturday you’ll find pretzels and pastries made with local red currants, along with an expanded range of breads including our Whole Wheat Country Loaves, baguettes and a new olive ciabbatta that we are really proud of.

Thanks again for your continued support!

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