Founded in 1976 not by a baker but by a visionary with principles about how good food should be made the village bakery has always been at the forefront of the organic movement making its reputation by swimming against the tide of the use of additives and preservatives in mass produced bread and cakes it uses natural processes artisan methods and interesting ingredients to make its pioneering rangesthe village bakery is a success story of a real village bakery a business based at the foo