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From soil to sourdough: Bakery helps create sustainable farming future

With deep roots in food and farming, one couple is reimagining what a small family farm can be in a modern world

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From soil to sourdough: Bakery helps create sustainable farming future

In a quiet corner of Suffolk, Alexander and Emily Aitchison are busy building a business as farmer-bakers. Their baking story starts with a wood-fired oven in a shed at their home in the village of...

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