Devon is jam-packed with bakeries, and we need to let you know which are our favourites right now! Whether you’re looking for a fresh loaf or a bespoke cake, check out these bakeries as soon as you can!
Crusty Loaf bakery has been establish for over 30 years, supplying local business and individuals in the Torbay area, Newton Abbot and Dartmoor. They pride themselves on the fact that they produce all their products onsite giving them total control on the end product.
They bake all their fresh bread daily they also make a fresh wide range of cakes and sandwiches, you can even make your own sandwich fresh from the sandwich bar!
Established in 1988, Mrs Gills are a small bakery based in the heart of Devon, using the finest local ingredients to produce award winning cakes. They can cater for wholesale orders of 100’s of cakes and ‘one off’ retail orders for birthdays and weddings.
In their friendly Exeter workshop, Crafty Cakes offer premium quality cakes made to order for all occasions. Why not give them a call or alternatively come in and talk to one of the team to see how they can help you create the perfect cake for all your special occasions.
The Almond Thief are a craft bakery based in Dartington, making freshly baked sourdough bread, delicious pastries and coffee, breakfast, lunch and Saturday brunch. Definitely worth a visit!
Devonvale is an independent family run bakery business set in the heart of the Devonshire countryside. They specialise in producing a comprehensive range of high quality, individually wrapped handbaked flapjacks, crunchy cakes, crumble bars, shortbread slices, oat cookies, cakes and cereal bars.
Halletts offer a free daily delivery service in a radius of approximately 25 miles from our bakery in Paignton for orders over £10.00 net.
Truly Treat’s passion for homemade baking and their love for cooking took them to the French Alps where we spent a winter season providing top quality food for chalet guests.
They produced a large range of cakes and sweet treats and perfected a number of recipes that were devoured by their guests on a daily basis.
Sandford’s Bakery is a family run business located in the small market town of Great Torrington, North Devon, England. Every tasty morsel is baked by the small team of skilled artisan bakers. They pride ourselves on the use of traditional methods and recipes, and do not use any preservatives in the foods they produce.
Nigel Tomlin at his “Platypus Power Station”, a river-run hydro station he built at Ellendale in Tasmania’s Derwent Valley. This small-scale form of hydro generation is one of several renewable alternatives, including wind and solar (rooftop and large-scale) that the Tasmanian government needs to put firmly on the table. PHOTO Peter Boyer
“In these times of power uncertainty, are you prepared for a power outage?” asked the ad for generator hire in yesterday’s Mercury. Not what any energy minister likes to see.
Matthew Groom is indeed faced with an uncertainty problem. But if he wants to really come to grips with it he should heed what John Lawrence (also in the Tasmanian Times) and Jack Gilding wrote in these pages last week.
Lawrence believes that entrenched attitudes may cause ministerial and parliamentary reviews to blame our pickle entirely on mismanagement and to overlook deeper and more fundamental issues. Gilding, who managed a community wind-farm before taking the helm at the Tasmanian Renewable Energy Alliance, puts a powerful argument for Groom to cast the widest possible net in looking for ways to deal with both the immediate and the longer-term.
At the heart of our electricity supply problem is a matter of critical public importance: the gap separating the alliance of government, big industry and power utilities from the rest of us. The domination of large-scale suppliers and users has led successive governments consistently to under-estimate the potential role of non-hydro renewables, feed-in tariffs and energy efficiency.
The other elephant in the room is climate change. Last week Groom drew our attention to “an extreme natural weather event” – the absence of rain through spring, summer and early autumn.
We don’t yet have evidence to show whether the present dry period is natural as Groom says – like the 1967-68 drought which led to power rationing – or whether it’s been affected by human-induced warming. But 2009 modelling suggests we shouldn’t dismiss the latter possibility.
That work, commissioned by the government and Hydro Tasmania, analysed how our climate will behave under various carbon emissions scenarios. It found a trend that looked a lot like what happened this summer: a drier western half of the state, where nearly all hydro power is generated.
Funding for “Climate Futures for Tasmania” ended in 2010. It shouldn’t have. Today’s better global models, better data and more powerful supercomputers would greatly improve our ability to see where the climate is taking us.
Natural or not, individual weather events will always be notoriously hard to plan for. Just like economic shocks. In a candid TV moment last year, former treasury secretary Ken Henry admitted that in 2008 he dismissed as unrealistic the concerns of his prime minister Kevin Rudd, about Australia’s vulnerability to a global financial crisis. Rudd turned out to be right; the professional wrong.
Tasmanian economist Saul Eslake has made a career out of looking ahead. His thinking about where our economy is going carries an authority born of a keen mind and years of experience. But he acknowledges that economic models take insufficient account of climate change.
That is a challenge for both economists and scientists, he told me last week. He believes the two professions need to work together on causal links between climate change and economic shocks and build these links into new models able to project economic consequences.
Our energy deficit was caused by both weather and economic factors. John Lawrence applied his economist’s training to the chain of events as the dam levels grew critical, and offered some good explanations for Hydro taking the steps that it did.
It’s easy to be wise after the event. Matthew Groom and his Hydro advisers can take comfort from that analysis. It’s not all their fault. But now they must change course and tackle the systemic changes needed to ride out future energy shocks, opening up to the advice of Gilding and others outside the inner circle.
Last week, acknowledging public anxiety about dam levels, Groom asserted that “the Government has a Plan in place to ensure that the energy requirements of the state continue to be met”.
He should end right now the pretence that he or anyone can “ensure” any such thing. Our future has always been less than certain and global warming has raised that uncertainty to another level.
He should take the Tasmanian public into his confidence and spread the burden of working out solutions – which without major rain events will have to include energy conservation measures. We’re all in this together. We all have to be part of the solution.
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