Tall Grass Prairie bread company

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Tall Grass Prairie bread company

• Organic goodness

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Business overview

• 2 locations The Forks and Westminster
• Three families own and run the 2 locations.
• There is one general manager
• Each location has counter staff and bakers all
  working various shifts.
• Tall grass is a neighborhood bakery that supports
  organic agriculture and the production of food
  locally.

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Placement responsibilities

• Determining what is needed for daily bake
  including daily breads, special orders and
  wholesale orders.
• Mixing all bread, cinnamon bun, and bun dough.
• Shaping and processing the dough.
• Proofing and baking the breads and having them
  brought out to the display cases to be sold.

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Assessment of professional and personal gains

• Working at Tall Grass provided me with a great
  deal of bread baking experience. I became skilled
  in mixing, processing and baking of many
  varieties of breads.
• Organizational skills were a very important
  aspect of my job. Once I became more organized I
  learned to do my job more efficiently and became
  the primary bread baker.

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Tall grass prairie points of interest

• The bakery specializes in fresh milled, high
  quality, whole grain breads.
• All flour utilized is sourced as whole grain,
  directly from local organic farmers.
• The bakery pays a minimum of three times the
  wheat board price, maintaining profitability by
  processing the grains on site. This ensures the
  bakery will have access to the freshest, most
  nutritious flour available and will result in a
  favorable bread product.

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Critical events

• I became the primary baker who was responsible
  for producing the breads that were sold each day.
• I trained new bakers to work along side with me.
  
• Baked for many large events including the Folk
  festival and several large conferences.
• Baked very large weekly orders for Via rail.
• During a storm we had to do a very large wedding
  bread order and had to stop and start over at
  Westminster as there was no power for us to bake
  the bread at the Forks!

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In closing..

• This co-op term provided me the knowledge, skill
  and confidence to continue learning and
  developing my baking skills specializing in bread
  baking. I enjoyed working with the many types of
  dough and learning as much as I did.