A new school year means new students for us to teach and train. We now have two classrooms upstairs at the bakery to coincide with our work experience and commercial cooking program.
Our bakers have been busy with cookie and muffin orders for school breakfast and snack programs. Some schools have already started their snack fundraisers- muffins, pizza pretzels and bannock are some of the products being used so far for schools to raise money!
We love the way this works - schools buy our products for their fundraisers and the money the bakery makes goes back into our own teaching programs. Now that's baking a better community together!
Come see us at the bakery and see our program in action! Your purchases help us train young people at risk too!
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Friday, May 31, 2013
...drumroll please....
Here is our new 1930s style logo! Watch for it on our renovated building, on our food truck this summer, on our baking at fine locations across the city, and... One more place we can't tell you about yet! ;)
"What are you up to now??!!!"
That's what one our neighbours asked this morning when they saw our building!
We are renovating the outside of the building to look similar to the way it did in the 1930s...
We'll reveal our new sign/logo soon!
We are renovating the outside of the building to look similar to the way it did in the 1930s...
We'll reveal our new sign/logo soon!
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Nestor 's now at Wilson's!
Well, we understand it can be hard getting to the bakery before one pm on a Saturday. So we 'll be at Wilson's Greenhouse on McOrmond Road every Saturday from 9-2... Here 's what we'll have on hand :
Nestor's legendary sandwich bread
A wide variety of Artisan bread
Pies and pastries
Fruition Orchards preserves and pickles
Homemade granola
Pasta
Flax cookies
Scuffles
Nestor's legendary sandwich bread
A wide variety of Artisan bread
Pies and pastries
Fruition Orchards preserves and pickles
Homemade granola
Pasta
Flax cookies
Scuffles
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Hot Lunches Mon-Fri at the Bakery!
Our commercial cooking instructor , Laura, has been teaching our students about making healthy lunches and serving them up to the staff and students at the Community Learners High School. We also offer these hot lunches at the bakery for $5, including a drink. Pick up your lunch today! Feel free to phone ahead to find out what's on the menu !
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Christmas is over, now we're getting ready for....
...Ukrainian Christmas on January 7! On Christmas eve, Ukrainians eat a traditional meal that includes 12 meatless dishes, including perogies, beet borscht, mushrooms, fish (ok, not completely meatless), cabbage rolls (usually made with buckwheat) and traditional Ukrainian round braided bread called kolach. Kutya, a wheat, poppy and honey soup starts off the meal.
We have all of these products at the bakery. Whether you are Ukrainian, love Ukrainian food, or looking for something new to try. We also sell cooked and ground unsweetened poppyseed and uncooked wheat so you can make your own kutya, as well as sweetened poppyseed paste to make your own poppy desserts. The bakery has also makes poppy and prune bismarks for Christmas - a fried doughnut with poppy or prune filling - very traditional and very tasty!
We specialize in poppy treats! We have poppyseed danish swirls, poppy flats, poppyseed bar, poppy strudel, and poppy bread.
Come and check out our Ukrainian heritage at Nestor's Three Sisters Bakery!
We have all of these products at the bakery. Whether you are Ukrainian, love Ukrainian food, or looking for something new to try. We also sell cooked and ground unsweetened poppyseed and uncooked wheat so you can make your own kutya, as well as sweetened poppyseed paste to make your own poppy desserts. The bakery has also makes poppy and prune bismarks for Christmas - a fried doughnut with poppy or prune filling - very traditional and very tasty!
We specialize in poppy treats! We have poppyseed danish swirls, poppy flats, poppyseed bar, poppy strudel, and poppy bread.
Come and check out our Ukrainian heritage at Nestor's Three Sisters Bakery!
Friday, October 14, 2011
Saskatoon's First Community Bakery...How it happened...
Welcome to the first day of The Three Sisters at Nestor's Bakery!
How did this happen, you ask? Well! Let us tell you our (somewhat long-winded) story...
It all began with an idea in Keith Jorgenson's head. Keith is the founder and executive director of New Community Youth Development Corporation, a not for profit focusing on training and educating youth out of school by using social enterprise projects. YDC (and Keith) have been successful in creating micro-businesses that train and employ young people out of school (and usually involved in the criminal justice system) and provide an important service to the community, all at the same time generating its own funding.
But this idea was about feeding people...
What if we trained young people how to bake healthy foods? And then we sold this food at cost to people in low income communities?
Yes, a good idea, but how would you make that happen without some significant money or funding source, a bakery, bakers, buyers, buy in, a place to sell, etc. etc...
And sometimes, people are just meant to meet each other... such is the case of Audrey Matushewski and Keith... they got to know each other when Keith would buy lunch from Audrey at Nestor's Bakery, across the street from where he previously worked... Keith told Audrey about his idea, and she offered use of the bakery for his project!
Now, where to find a baker? Well, who can manage a project, keep young people in line, produce, organize, sell, and keep things sane? As the saying goes, behind every idea is the wife that makes it happen (or something like that!). Carmen and Keith, always willing to take on a challenge together, created the "Better Bread Box" program out of Nestor's Bakery. Every two weeks, they headed to the bakery with grocery bags and young people in tow for two afternoons of baking healthy, whole wheat, low sugar, low oil baking that they presold in boxes of $20. After the baking, they boxed and organized the delivery, and then delivered of all of these boxes of baking, including providing baking at cost to a local mission and not for profits in the neighbourhood.
The baking program generated so much interest (over 400 members in the first week on facebook and up to 80 boxes of baking orders every two weeks - that's 300 loaves of bread alone!) that the bread box model was no longer sustainable and staff were getting burnt out.
What now? Well, Audrey suggested buying the bakery so she could retire.
So, after exploring some ways that could happen, YDC took ownership of Nestor's Bakery on September 15, 2011.
Nestor's Bakery still operates and runs as it always did, and will continue to provide quality baking and deli products to Saskatchewan. We have added a new line of baking, based on the successful recipes used by the Better Bread Box, called the Three Sisters, which is a healthy, whole wheat line of baking focusing on small batches and artisanal and local ingredients and ways of baking. We train and mentor young people at the bakery and provide them with a salary and/or commercial cooking high school credits.
What's in the future for this community endeavour? Here are some of the changes that will be happening:
- a cafe in the front of the bakery
- fundraising "pop up" bake sales for schools and non profits
- continuation of the better bread box program
- providing low cost healthy baking to the community
- commercial cooking credits for young people working in the bakery through the YDC alternative school
- partnerships with local organizations and businesses
Baking for a better community,
Three Sisters and Nestors Staff and Management
Audrey Matushewski - manager
Carmen Dyck - manager
How did this happen, you ask? Well! Let us tell you our (somewhat long-winded) story...
It all began with an idea in Keith Jorgenson's head. Keith is the founder and executive director of New Community Youth Development Corporation, a not for profit focusing on training and educating youth out of school by using social enterprise projects. YDC (and Keith) have been successful in creating micro-businesses that train and employ young people out of school (and usually involved in the criminal justice system) and provide an important service to the community, all at the same time generating its own funding.
But this idea was about feeding people...
What if we trained young people how to bake healthy foods? And then we sold this food at cost to people in low income communities?
Yes, a good idea, but how would you make that happen without some significant money or funding source, a bakery, bakers, buyers, buy in, a place to sell, etc. etc...
And sometimes, people are just meant to meet each other... such is the case of Audrey Matushewski and Keith... they got to know each other when Keith would buy lunch from Audrey at Nestor's Bakery, across the street from where he previously worked... Keith told Audrey about his idea, and she offered use of the bakery for his project!
Now, where to find a baker? Well, who can manage a project, keep young people in line, produce, organize, sell, and keep things sane? As the saying goes, behind every idea is the wife that makes it happen (or something like that!). Carmen and Keith, always willing to take on a challenge together, created the "Better Bread Box" program out of Nestor's Bakery. Every two weeks, they headed to the bakery with grocery bags and young people in tow for two afternoons of baking healthy, whole wheat, low sugar, low oil baking that they presold in boxes of $20. After the baking, they boxed and organized the delivery, and then delivered of all of these boxes of baking, including providing baking at cost to a local mission and not for profits in the neighbourhood.
The baking program generated so much interest (over 400 members in the first week on facebook and up to 80 boxes of baking orders every two weeks - that's 300 loaves of bread alone!) that the bread box model was no longer sustainable and staff were getting burnt out.
What now? Well, Audrey suggested buying the bakery so she could retire.
So, after exploring some ways that could happen, YDC took ownership of Nestor's Bakery on September 15, 2011.
Nestor's Bakery still operates and runs as it always did, and will continue to provide quality baking and deli products to Saskatchewan. We have added a new line of baking, based on the successful recipes used by the Better Bread Box, called the Three Sisters, which is a healthy, whole wheat line of baking focusing on small batches and artisanal and local ingredients and ways of baking. We train and mentor young people at the bakery and provide them with a salary and/or commercial cooking high school credits.
What's in the future for this community endeavour? Here are some of the changes that will be happening:
- a cafe in the front of the bakery
- fundraising "pop up" bake sales for schools and non profits
- continuation of the better bread box program
- providing low cost healthy baking to the community
- commercial cooking credits for young people working in the bakery through the YDC alternative school
- partnerships with local organizations and businesses
Baking for a better community,
Three Sisters and Nestors Staff and Management
Audrey Matushewski - manager
Carmen Dyck - manager
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