About Our Bread

There doesn’t need to be a lot of ingredients in great whole grain, whole-wheat bread. Five pure and simple ingredients are all it takes: whole-wheat flour, water, fresh yeast, salt, and something sweet (in our case, honey from a beekeeper in Clare, Michigan). In fact, we’d say bread is best when you keep it simple. It’s even better when you use the highest quality ingredients you can find.

For us, that means fresh-grinding all of our wheat in our store. In fact we grind three types of grain: hard red spring wheat; hard white winter wheat; and spelt. Just like fresh ground coffee beans make a better cup of coffee, fresh ground grains of wheat make a better tasting – and better for you! – loaf of bread. For the best whole-wheat taste, it’s important to rush flour from the mill to the mixing bowl. Until you taste bread that fresh, chances are you’ve never really tasted the true flavor of wheat.

As far as preservatives go, forget about it! Great Harvest breads have never been made with preservatives or artificial additives of any kind…and they never will. Thanks to our special scratch-made process, our breads still stay fresh for up to ten days (if you can keep your hands off it that long!)