Wheatfield Bakery

People feel very passionate about bread, whether it is bagels, or rye, or what makes a good loaf.

We'd like to welcome Wheatfield Bakery to the neighborhood. Run by Anna & Francesco out their E 17th street apartment, what started as making bread and other baked goods for friends and neighbors, is expanding to the wider community.

You can place your orders for the holidays by emailing wheatfieldbakery@gmail.com. All items are custom-baked to order and can be picked up at Albemarle&E17th or delivered within the Ditmas Park and Prospect Park South neighborhoods. Custom-created, vegan and gluten-free items available.

What is the baking like? While we have not had a chance to try it yet, here is what the bakers say themselves:

"We offer a wide selection of French and Italian-inspired sweet and savory items, including custom-designed cakes, tortes, pies, tarts, cookies and other finger sweets, as well as breads, pizza and focaccia.

We believe in using ingredients that are as close as possible to their original state found in nature and locally-grown fruits and vegetables wherever possible. We use only organic non-GMO flour and organic dairy products from New York and New England farms. Our non-domestic chocolate and vanilla come from small grower-run cooperatives whose fair-trade practices we are happy to support.

We believe that Wendell Berry's claim that "eating is an agricultural act" applies as aptly to baked goods as it does to everything else we consume; we like to trace the connection to the land that produced the ingredients we use in every item we bake.