Nestled in a corner near the children's barn at Shelburne Farms is a bakery that's been making fresh, artisanal bread for nearly 40 years.
O Bread was started by the couple Chuck Conway and Carla Kevorkian, high school sweethearts, who first started making bread at the Warren Store in Warren, Vermont. They decided to move their operation to Chittenden County in the mid-1970s. After meeting Alec Webb of Shelburne Farms at the Burlington Farmer's Market, they decided to opened up O Bread there.
"Their sensibility was in sync," said Sally Pollak, a writer for the Savorvore Section of the Burlington Free Press. "Shelburne Farms is interested in agriculture and growing food people can connect to and Chuck and Carla are making hand-crafted, artisanal bread. For a while, they were milling their own wheat and growing their own wheat at the farm."
You can find out more about O Bread in Pollak's piece "O Bread Bakery in Shelburne Among First Of Its Kind."
The VPR Café is made possible by Otter Creek Kitchenware in downtown Middlebury, offering over 70 lines of kitchenware, and by Kimball Brook Farm, organic milk and cream from Vermont grass-grazed cows.
