Lucho Bakes

18/10/2026

What a week it's been, and it all happened whilst we were having a little break before the Christmas rush.
Let's give a very special thanks to our friend Staff for running the stall, we were told he's been brilliant.
And to our two incredibly good bakers who did the whole week, including the night shifts, on their own so we could enjoy our time off.
Letting go of control is part of growing a business, this week they ran the show with little input from us, and it allowed us to be here and to disconnect.

Thanks so much ❤️

16/10/2026

Today I finished my morning meditation session and saw a message from one of our wholesalers saying that the bread looks magnificent today and how happy they are on how everything went.
Yesterday's market was another immense achievement for us, as Meg and Andreia managed everything by themselves and our friend's Staff and Jo picked everything up and headed to South Molton to set up and serve the stall. The day was also a very good one sales wise.
We are trying hard to have a rest and relax, trying not to get involved on how things are going, letting go of what we can't control from here, and it only went to show how good it was all planned.
I couldn't be prouder and sentimental, my baby has its own wings, not everything is about turnover and profit, this is also business growth.
The next thing that needs to grow now is our little shop, let's make it worth the drive down to Venn Valley. The shop is open today from 10am, go and say hi to the ladies and tell them how good they are for what they achieved.
Much love ❤️

14/10/2026

Shop is open, the ladies did the hero work today and the bakes look banging!
We are down at Venn Valley Winery, Landkey.
See you there!

11/10/2026

We are taking some time off to visit the family in Spain.
It is a big thing for us, for the first time since we opened the bakery, we'll go away and we'll leave the bakery running 100%, but we need your support.
Meg and Andreia will do all the work at the bakery, the shop will be open but be patient as they'll be prepping and attending the shop.
The market will run as usual with our friends Jo and Staff, from the flowers and the veg and fruit stall setting up our pitch and serving.
It's been a couple of worrying weeks as things slowed down, and that's not the worry you want when trying to have some rest. But we trust it's temporary.
Our new focus, beside our beloved market pitch, will be the shop, there are exciting things coming, there "could be" a butcher van coming every so often to sell from outside the bakery, we might bring some cheeses, eggs, olives and other things, not a huge lot, but stuff to make it worth coming down, having a cuppa at The Vine, buying some baked goods and other goodies, and maybe some other bits from neighbour businesses, who knows.
But it'll all be down to the support we get
Remember, Wednesdays and Fridays at the shop, Thursdays and Saturdays at the market!

10/10/2026

Tomorrow from 10 to 1, Meg will be there!

08/10/2026

The shop is open tomorrow from 10am, bread, pasties, jams and other treats.
And maybe, some incredibly good cultured butter...
Wednesdays and Fridays from 10am at Venn Valley, Landkey

06/10/2026

A few days ago I was talking with someone about the organic sugar we are using, and they said I should use regular sugar as organic is to expensive, and what difference it'd make.
The difference maybe won't be noticed in flavour as much (there's a difference of course), but the main difference might be supporting a change that is needed to help the environment, because the use of herbicides and pesticides does a lot of damage.
We aren't a certified organic bakery, that requires a whole bunch of paperwork and money that we can't afford, but almost all our ingredients are, and if they aren't, they are ethically sourced. Our packaging is compostable, and even our labels are compostable.
All of this makes it extremely hard to keep it going, because, as you can imagine, the costs are eye watering.
We could go the route of dropping the quality of ingredients, and that'd make it all much easier, but it isn't what we believe in, if no one used this kind of ingredients, a change will ever happen and the food system would keep degrading and the only ones who'd get benefits will be supermarkets and big corps.
We only need to keep being supported by you, our customers.
And since you are here, the shop at the bakery will be open tomorrow from 10am at Venn Valley Vineyard and Winery, just next to The Vine Landkey , other businesses like Shop Raw North Devon are open as well (not sure they opening times tho).
We don't have a massive amount of bakes, we are just starting slow and steady, we have some ideas for the future, but we first need to see that it's worth the effort.
Open Wednesdays and Fridays from 10am!

01/10/2026

We get a few people coming over to the bakery asking if they can buy, but we didn't have a shop for long, but we'll give it another go.
To start with, we'll have leftovers from today's market with a discount tomorrow available here from 10am.
The shop won't have everything we have in the market, but who knows, we'll start slowly and see if it builds up, and then we might add more stuff.
This will be only Wednesdays and Fridays.
See you tomorrow 🙂

25/09/2026

Our sugar is now organic, we used organic sugar before, but the price is hard to afford, like 4 times the price of normal sugar. But we found an amazing deal and we can source it now for half that costs, which we believe it's good enough.
Look at the darker colour of it, beautiful.

24/09/2026

I lost account of the time we were doing this, but almost, if not more than, 3 years.
Every week we donate 5 loaves freshly made for them. In 3 years that'd be roughly 800 loaves, there were times where we donated to other places, including raffles, food banks, food pantries.
There were times when our own income was at risk, cashflow was rough, but we kept doing it, because if we can't give back a little bit of what we got from this beautiful community, we'd be nothing.
Share love, give to others, it'll make a huge difference to them, and it'll come back to you.
Thanks YMCA South Molton for the tags ❤️

Community cafe and community fridge are open today from 12:.30 to 3pm, and we would love to see you.

Hazel’s delicious homemade stuffed marrow is fresh in the oven and smelling amazing, alongside a comforting pot of roasted carrot soup and beautiful sourdough bread from Lucho Bakes to go with it. We will also have the kettle on for hot coffee and tea, plus plenty of cakes 🍰 and pastries for a sweet treat afterward.

We operate on a donation basis, so any contribution you can spare to help keep our doors open is deeply appreciated. Pop on by to grab a bite, and say hello 😊