Good afternoon, Berlin Natural Bakery family! We are happy to report that we are having a steady, safe and inspiring start to 2023! It's been a season of learning and growing but my goodness, we have so much to be thankful for. And we're praying you are feeling the same no matter your circumstances. 

With that said, have you tried our Righteous Raisin Bread!?!? The most powerful, under recognized and delightfully raisin-y loaf of bread I have ever come across! It's incredible toasted with butter or even as the most epic salty/sweet grilled cheese! 

Hello Berlin Natural Bakery! 

I sure hope 2023 has been kind to you so far and that you had a peaceful, joyful, wonder-filled holiday season!

I know with all of the talk about resolutions all over the place, you probably don't want to hear from us but I have been pondering a few things and I would like to share them with you, if you'll indulge me. 

I know many resolutions tend to focus on losing weight and I think that's kind of a natural thing especially if you were blessed enough to have a fairly indulgent, relaxed holiday season. And I also know there are a variety of ways people go about it - calorie counting/limiting being one of the major ones. But, I just want to encourage you (if you are in this type of mindset) to maybe consider zooming out and instead of making the focus on "getting smaller" or extreme restriction perhaps it's more about recognizing the quality of things in our lives and GROWING in our understanding and recognizing the roots of our habits or patterns. 

Instead of trying to minimize yourself or simply not take up as much space - why not maximize your..  everything!? 

I personally have been doing a lot of internal work on myself and I'm telling you - the more understanding and healing I gain, the more weight I lose! And that's not just physical weight. It is the weight of judgement from others or the weight of pain from past relationships or the weight of living up to someone else's expectations. I have always said "I want to be just like my Mom!" And while she is still absolutely my #1 hero and role model, I have learned that trying to be her does a disservice to me and my personal gifts! After all, she has always replied to my desire to be just like her with "you seriously need to raise your standards!" ;) 

All that to say, I pray you have dreams and goals and hope for 2023 and that each of the things you desire comes to fruition for you in a natural, healthy and healing way! 

To apply this to bread - I know so many people think that in order to lose weight they need to kick bread to the curb. And while they should absolutely dump the junk "bread type substances" on the grocery store shelf - I'd boldly make the argument that eating real, minimal ingredient Spelt bread can absolutely help fuel you on your health journey! As always, all things in moderation of course, but I'd be surprised to find a better nutritional food pairing out there than Spelt Sourdough and Avocado and a touch of onion and sea salt. (Or maybe that's just my personal preference!). 

Here's what I know, we've heard from thousands of you how you just plain feel better when you consume our products. I personally can testify to that in my life. I cannot live without our Spelt breads every single day and I truly believe the complex carbs help me recover from my morning workouts. But even without the workouts, I have found that when I am eating real, nutrient rich foods - I feel better, I function better and I focus better. If you relate to this, I'd love to hear from you in the comments below!

With our Spelt breads - you are getting minimally processed, small batch baked, ancient grain bread. We add no preservatives, no artificial colors, no artificial flavors, no artificial vitamins. Our ingredients are minimal and recognizable. Our care is nothing short of maximum effort! Our heart is to continue fighting the good fight of providing solid, hearty, yummy Spelt breads and baked goods for every soul and family out there who needs them and/or recognizes the call to consume feel-good foods! 

Now, with all that said, I know this isn't our normal style of content but I am feeling the call to put more out there about us, our mindset, our mission and our heart. So I sure hope you enjoyed this journey and for those of you that did, I look forward to connecting and sharing more with you! 

As always, with all our very best, 

Nicole & The Berlin Natural Bakery Family 

Season's Greeting Berlin Natural Bakery Family! 

Wow! What a year it has been. Just when you think you’ve dealt with all the “unprecedented” the world has to offer and then BAM! 2022 appears with its own unique set of challenges and circumstances that leave you upended! It seems impossible to get through and then suddenly you end another year amazed that you made it through and so incredibly blessed by a year of learning, repositioning and a new richness in relationships.

We’ve tried to be transparent with our struggles this year but as we get ready to close the chapter on 2022, I’d love to write about all we are grateful for. 

First, we are so grateful to have recently added some incredible GEMS to our Berlin Natural Bakery team. We have obviously been understaffed but we made a few new hires that have given some new liveliness to both our packaging and baking departments! Change oftentimes seems scary and there were definitely moments this year of “yikes! We need more hands. How are we going to do this?” But thankfully we’ve got a spectacular group of people on our hands and we’re so incredibly close to having a full roster once again!

To piggyback off of that, I’d be remiss not to highlight and honor our incredible leaders who literally stood in the gap while we were on the lookout for new hires. Our General Manager Cindy and our Operations Manager Karl are truly examples of excellence and honor and commitment and extraordinary leadership. They spent a lot of time in the trenches - this year and many others - and their presence was inspiring and uplifting even during the Cyber Monday avalanche sale! 

Speaking of Cyber Monday - WOWZA! Now that was one doozy of a sale and we couldn’t be more in awe of the response to it. A record breaking Cyber Monday that leaves us feeling humble and grateful. It wasn’t without its challenges but we couldn’t be more grateful for your support, your kindness and your patience as we dug ourselves out of that incredible avalanche! 

This truly is the type of year that creates refinement and resilience. The kind of year that develops leaders and confidence and extraordinary faith because despite the odds, we’ve made it through. We’ve weathered literal storms, we’ve gotten creative, we’ve grown, we’ve dug deep and we’ve made it to the holidays. We have continued doing what’s right even when it isn’t easy and we excitedly look forward to 2023. 

So we raise a “toast” to you and your family! To your health and your growth and your peace! May you have a gentle holiday season that ushers in a New Year of happy memories and joy! 

With all our best, 

Nicole & The Berlin Natural Bakery Family 

Housekeeping: We will be closed Monday December 26, 2022 for Christmas and Monday January 2, 2022 for New Years. We will be shipping orders with their freshness and ship time in mind. 

DO NOT FORGET THE DISCOUNT CODE: If you forget to apply the discount code at checkout, we CANNOT add it to your order after the fact. 

DELAY ORDER: If you would like to delay the shipping of your Cyber Monday order please write the date you would prefer us to ship it in the Notes section of checkout. We will do all we can to accommodate these requests. 

SHIPPING THRESHOLD: With these kinds of discounts, please make sure you pay attention to your cart's total and verify that it meets the discounted shipping threshold!

Happy shopping! 

Best wishes from all of us at Berlin Natural Bakery!

GET READY! IT'S HAPPENING THIS SUNDAY & MONDAY! We are happy to announce that we are going to be able to offer a Cyber Monday sale this year! It is by far our biggest sale of the year so you definitely don't want to miss out! To give a little context - we're doing this a few weeks early to avoid any shipping delays the week after Thanksgiving AND so that you have your favorite Spelt items on hand for your Thanksgiving meal!

This year, the 25% off Cyber Monday discount code will appear in your inbox Sunday Nov 6th morning at 12:30am EST and will remain active until Monday night at 11:59pm PST. This means we’re doing Cyber SUNDAY and MONDAY! Hopefully this will give you time to get your order in but also, it will help us get ahead and prepared for the early Monday morning craziness.

We are so thankful to be able to make this happen for you all even though it means we will be baking up a storm and will have some very tired people. The cost never outweighs the honor and gratitude we feel to be able to make a difference in this world. And we know our baked goods make a difference. 

Thank you for your support, your understanding, your kindness and your love! We feel it and are forever grateful and humbled. 

Best wishes from all of us at Berlin Natural Bakery!