Companion Bakery
Food in Southern Midlands

Wood fired, organic sourdough from organic flour. Our hours are from 10 am to 5pm, except sunday where we close a 4pm. We also run baking courses, which are held at the bakery every few months. Open for meals and high quality drinks every day except monday and tuesday. Locally sourced ingredients are used where possible, berries, including flour from callington mill, potatoes and other fresh fruit and vegetables from surrounding farms. using simple, natural ingredients. We make the kind of food we want to eat ourselves. Companion bakery is located opposite callington mill, in the historic town oatlands, tasmania. See our website for further details.

The owners are pursuing other projects and remain to operate aw.sourdough.com. Thank you to everyone for your encourage over the years. The bakery features a large wood fired Alan Scott oven our bread is baked by wood fire. A large stainless bakers table forms the central workbench where bakers and pastry chefs practice their art daily, as can be seen via the web cam. Organic yield Caring for the people you bake for, and conserving the planet's instinctive environment. We use 100 organic flour, organic apples, organic walnuts and whatever else we can get our hands on. Quality ingredients from local producers Active directly with local producers is very satisfying. Local producers often bear a better quality product too! We use Tasmanian: apples, pumpkin, walnuts, berries and other ingredients in our bread. Bread is made from Tasmanian organic flour from Callington Mill, which is opposite the bakery. Dialogue with the custom r Companion Bakery uses the baking standards of the Artisan Baker Association, designed to inform the customer on what exactly is going into their bread. All of our bread is naturally leavened using the sourdough process of long fermentation times. Smaller bakeries A belief shared with Crystal Waters in south east Queensland is that smaller local bakeries, are of greater profit to people and the environment. The only mill of its humane in the Southern hemisphere, the mill has been restored into a fully occupied flour mill, producing organic flour and specializing in ancient grains such as Rye, pelt and Quinoa. Companion Bakery is opposite the mill and uses the freshly ground flour in our bread. The mill and its flour also form part of our baking classes.