Kuluntu Bakery | Building community through baking & breaking bread

Kuluntu Bakery is a non-profit bakery that co-creates a more equitable food system and community by connecting the food industry,

consumers and partners to center women and humanize all food workers.

Preorder is required as we do not have a storefront. Order pickups will take place at our home in North Oak Cliff.

Save the Date

Thanksgiving preorders are live!

Preorders close on November 17 and pickup is on November 27.

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🇿🇦Kuluntu means community in isiXhosa
✨Breaking bread, building community
🥐Baking on Thursdays
⭐️JBF Nominee Outstanding Bakery

Preorders are live for next Thursday’s bread bak

Preorders are live for next Thursday’s bread bake AND Thanksgiving preorders close tomorrow (Sunday) at 10 pm!

We’re only baking bread next Thursday as we begin Thanksgiving prep.

A few bread serving suggestions for your festivities:

- Country sour > cube and stale to use in stuffing
- Date, walnut & cardamom > great on a cheese board!
- Jewish deli rye > freeze and then defrost for leftover turkey sandwiches😋

It’s bake day! @lizmathile has been crushing it

It’s bake day! @lizmathile has been crushing it on the bread game + everything else coming out of the bakery. We are so grateful for her!

See y’all at pickup from 5-7 pm. Extra goodies heading to @labodegaoakcliff around 4 pm.

P.S. don’t forget to get your Thanksgiving preorders in by this Sunday at 10 pm!

It’s been so long since we made croissants that

It’s been so long since we made croissants that we were scared we forgot how to😂 Good news, we didn’t! Just like riding a bike.

Preorders are live for next Thursday’s bake! T

Preorders are live for next Thursday’s bake!

This week’s menu:
- Country Sour
- Sesame Sour
- Pecan Pie Croissant
- Pumpkin, Bourbon & Caramel Cake Slice
- Salted Caramel Apple Galette
- Kuluntu’s Autumn Granola

You know what to do — head to the link in bio and place your order by Monday 10 am. And don’t forget to check out our Thanksgiving menu while you’re there!

📸 @hangryviolet

We are picking up where we left off in September a

We are picking up where we left off in September and sharing more about how we approach our nonprofit work! Swipe through to learn more about every step of our process. We’re engaging with this work with renewed motivation and understanding of just how important this work is.

Kuluntu’s approach is always to work *from* and *with* people; centering people, communities and the environment throughout program development, implementation and evaluation.

Early on, we took quite a bit of time to understand how this approach might work in practice. Typically, nonprofit programs are developed without the input of those that the programs seek to impact. Our goal is to work alongside folks, listen to their experiences, and develop programming with their direct input so that we can create shared ownership, trust and accountability.

We adapted the participatory ideas of Paulo Freire, Sally Timmel and Anne Hope through @tftinpractice to create a methodology that centers the communities we seek to impact. This approach takes much more thought, effort and time (2+ years in our case), but we believe this approach is the key to transformative programs.

Our future brick and mortar space will be the home for our programs and provide a safe environment for our community to learn, grow and connect.

Next up, we’ll be diving into the insights we learned through our listening survey and Indaba.

It’s hard to believe that we’re here again, th

It’s hard to believe that we’re here again, that we’re still here. That the misogyny and racism in this country can outweigh the humanity💔

We have a lot of work to do, and we can only do it if we do it together. Right now, we mourn and rest. Take care of yourselves, friends. It’s going to be a long four years. We need our strength, and we need each other.

And just like that, Thanksgiving preorders are off

And just like that, Thanksgiving preorders are officially live on the website!

Can’t believe it’s already that time of year. As always, we are so delighted and grateful to be baking for you this holiday season💛✨ Link in bio to place your order.

Trick or Treat! Preorders are live for next week’s bake! We are baking on Wednesday instead of Thursday because of Halloween👻

Next week’s menu:
- Country Sour
- Polenta & Pumpkin Seed Sour
- Trick or Treat Blondie
- Butternut Squash, Goat Cheese & Sage Galette
- Kuluntu’s Autumn Granola

Preorders close on Monday at 10 am, and pick will be on Wednesday from 5-7 pm.

So great seeing y’all yesterday and chatting thr

So great seeing y’all yesterday and chatting through the pickup window! Just a reminder that we’re baking every other week for now as we get back into the groove of things. Hope y’all enjoy your baked goods😚

🎥 @wayfaristmedia

Our preorder menu for next Thursday’s bake is li

Our preorder menu for next Thursday’s bake is live on the website!

Quick refresher on how our bakes work:
- We bake once a week on Thursday’s. Pickup is at our cottage bakery from 5-7 pm or porch pickup afterwards.
- Right now, we are baking every other week as we ease back into work.
- Our menu changes every week but always includes sourdough bread, granola, pastries and desserts.
- Preordering is necessary as we bake to order. Our preorder menu opens on the website on Friday’s at 10 am and closes on Monday at 10 am.
- We bring extra items to @labodegaoakcliff on Thursday’s around 4 pm.

That’s it! We’re excited to bake for y’all🤗

This week’s menu:
- Country Sour
- Seedy Sour
- Salted rye chocolate chip cookie
- Salted caramel cake slice
- Kuluntu’s Autumn Granola

Hi friends! Stephanie here. My maternity leave is

Hi friends! Stephanie here. My maternity leave is winding down, and we will easing back into baking next week. We’ll be baking every other week, for now, and preorders will go live on the website this Friday at 10 am for next Thursday’s bake.

We’re excited to see y’all and bake for you again! The past few months have been a whirlwind - our hearts are full and our sleep tank is empty😅 We are learning so much everyday. How to be present, calm and take all the ups and downs with a good sense of humor. Most of all, we’ve been so grateful for the love and support of our community during this time. Can’t wait to catch up with y’all, and introduce you to our baby!

P.S. Can we talk about how challenging breastfeeding is?!😮‍💨 I feel like we should be talking about this more.

KULUNTU VALUES: TRANSFORMATIVE JUSTICE We are com

KULUNTU VALUES: TRANSFORMATIVE JUSTICE

We are committed to transitioning away from traditional, prescriptive pathways towards change and instead utilizing community, human-centered methods to achieve justice for all.

So what does this look like? First, we start with reimagining the current system in which we operate.

What does authentic community building and partnership look like? How do we work alongside and build a program with those impacted by this work? How do we rethink the power structure created by traditional fundraising?

In asking these questions, we challenge ourselves to step out of a scarcity mindset and operate from an abundance mindset.

In the coming weeks, we’ll be sharing more about how we used the value of transformative justice in designed and carrying out our community-centric program development process. Stay tuned!

Last week we shared about the power of Ubuntu. Suc

Last week we shared about the power of Ubuntu. Such a wonderful example of Ubuntu is the many volunteers who have been part of Kuluntu’s journey, thus far.

From those who have helped run and contribute to our events, wash dishes, advise us, design our branding, take photos and many more — giving your time, energy, skills and talents to building our grassroots organization truly makes a difference. We are honored that you want to be a part of this.

We’d also like to give LOTS of love to our board members who have shared so much of themselves to bring this vision to life. None of this is possible without them.

As we continue to grow, we will have many more volunteer opportunities available. If you are interested in volunteering, please visit our website and complete the form under the Donate tab.

KULUNTU VALUES: UBUNTU We are inspired by the Afr

KULUNTU VALUES: UBUNTU

We are inspired by the African philosophy of Ubuntu which means “humanity” and is often translated to mean “I am because you are”.

Ubuntu is a way of life that centers human dignity, interdependence, complexity, and liberation across the ways we think, interact, institutionalize, and structure. It begins from the premise that I cannot be who you are, and you cannot be who I am until the structures that divide and dehumanize us are transformed.

Kuluntu holds Ubuntu as a core value which guides our decisions and practices. Ubuntu is best encapsulated by the everyday people who survive, thrive, and build communities with one another despite relentless systemic barriers.

After learning about our mission and vision, you m

After learning about our mission and vision, you may be asking — why we are working to transform the food industry and why do we focus on women?

The wellbeing of a community is directly proportional to the status of women in that space. Women are the center of society. Yet, because of bias, violence, policies and structures, women occupy the margins of society, especially women of color.

The food industry reflects these intersecting barriers to women. It is the largest minimum wage employer in the country with the majority of those workers being women, and disproportionately women of color and single mothers. Women in these spaces report high levels of sexual harassment, poverty wages, and exploitation.

We believe that food industry establishments can and should do more to address the specific needs of women. We’re excited to launch programming and a community-centered space and bakery to work towards our mission and vision of a more just world.

We are delighted to share that baby boy arrived on

We are delighted to share that baby boy arrived on August 1💛 We are all happy, healthy and recovering well. So in love with our little baba🥰

OUR VISION Kuluntu Bakery envisions an interconne

OUR VISION

Kuluntu Bakery envisions an interconnected and interdependent food system and industry with women at the center. This encompasses anyone who identifies as a woman or nonbinary person.

This reimagined industry cultivates:

- Shared power
- Transparency
- Increased access
- Sustainability
- Stronger communities
- Social change

Kuluntu’s immediate goal is to open a brick and mortar bakery and community space focused on this reimagined industry.

We are excited to share our updated mission statem

We are excited to share our updated mission statement, which was informed by feedback and engagement with our community.

There has been so much unfolding behind the scenes the past few year, and admittedly, we haven’t had the bandwidth to share all these developments on social media. Our work has been slow, steady, and very intentional. You’ve seen and heard bits and pieces here and there, but we’d like to take the next few months to share more about the journey we’ve been on and invite you to be part of it.

As the African proverb goes, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”

We are on hiatus until mid-October while Stephanie

We are on hiatus until mid-October while Stephanie takes maternity leave💓

We will not be baking or hosting events during this time, but you can still purchase sourdough supplies (starter, bread kits, sourdough baking guides) for local pickup. You can find that info under the Order tab on our website.

Over the next few months, we’ll be sharing more here about the work our team has been doing behind the scenes to build out our nonprofit organization. We hope that you follow along and engage with our journey!

See y’all in October!

As we tie up loose ends and clean up the bakery fo

As we tie up loose ends and clean up the bakery for our hiatus, I want to give the biggest shout out and thank you to @lizmathile💖

Liz has been the one working behind the scenes making every bake come to life. She has taken on almost all of the prep work every week, mixed every sourdough loaf, packed countless orders and washed even more dishes. She is making the Kuluntu magic happen week in and week out.

Not to mention that her company in the kitchen is the best company! I couldn’t have possibly experienced such a pleasant and joyful pregnancy if it wasn’t for her. Eternally grateful to work alongside this gem🫶

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