07/10/2026
* ONLINE ORDERS NOW OPEN *
…but first, a little bread story, and the beginning of something lovely 🤎🍞
Some of you have been patiently waiting for sourdough to return to our shelves, so I wanted to share why it’s been missing, and introduce the hands that will now be making it.
We realised pretty quickly that baking sourdough in the quantities we needed just wasn’t something we could sustain in our tiny kitchen. Making room for a bigger pastry oven meant saying goodbye to our little stone oven, and while it was the right decision for Little Valley, it was hard to let that part go.
Since then, I’ve been searching high and low for someone who makes sourdough with the same care we do. Beautiful ingredients, and plenty of time and love. I didn’t want to bring bread back just to fill a shelf. It had to be bread we were proud to share with you.
And we’ve found it, along with a pretty cool human behind it.
Meet Darek from Cotto Micro Bakery! A passionate baker who cares deeply about the quality of what he makes, and an all-round lovely guy. Darek will be handmaking the sourdough for our shelves, and we’re so excited to share his work with our little community.
And my favourite part? He bought our original little stone oven from us! So a little piece of Little Valley lives on in his bakery. That feels like a pretty special full-circle moment 🥹
His hands, our shelves, shared values. Supporting another baker’s passion feels pretty special, because Little Valley has always been about community too.
This will be an online pre-order basis with limited walk-in amounts initially, pre-orders close Tuesday for Saturday collection.
Our first drop will be 31/10 then ongoing weekly.
Online pre-orders now live ⬇️
https://littlevalleybakehouse.square.site