The Traveling Baker
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.
Having baked (not to mention exploded, burned, crashed, and cursed) my way through the first month of Victoria’s market season, I’m here to report that I’ve had a blast. I want to extend my utmost thanks to anyone and everyone who has braved the interesting weather to find Ottilie and I trying to hold down our rickety market tent at the James Bay and Metchosin Farmer’s Markets. All the hard work has been rewarded by heaps of customers hefting massive loaves into shopping sacks and us going home tired but happy in a car that perpetually smells of fresh bread.
For anyone who hasn’t found us yet, here is a quick itinerary of where we sell and when:
James Bay Community Market: Saturday’s 9-3
(Corner of Menzies and Superior)
Metchosin Farmer’s Market: Sunday’s 11-2
(4450 Happy Valley Road, behind the firehall)
Oak Bay Night Market: Every Third Wednesday of the Month 4-8.
(Along Oak Bay Avenue)
