About

The key to a good bakery and a great loaf is a little bit of love. Stone Hearth Bakery started as a place to serve the community hand made breads, while offering skill-training opportunities for those facing barriers to employment. The bakery ran steady for many years, offering staples of rye breads and bagels that the community fell in love with.

Our bakers noticed a demand for kosher-pareve breads, so Stone Hearth started offering such products and at the time, we were the only bakery to do so east of Montreal. We built up our distribution, which included Canada Bread, that distributed our products across the Maritimes before their closing. We also began a partnership with Halifax Regional Municipality Sobeys locations that still exist today.

Did we mention we’re more than just a bakery? We talked about our employability program, but we also have a confectionary kitchen and a catering kitchen, all under one roof! We have cookies, biscuits, sandwiches, charcuterie boards and seafood towers just jumping out our doors. In 2018, we opened a cafe at Keshen Goodman Public Library to serve the community some great coffee, sweet treats and a selection of breads. We’re also business partners with the Ampersand Cafe in Halifax Central Library, so if you want a taste of what our catering kitchen can do, go check us out there.

Even though it’s been over 40 years, we’re proud that we can offer the supply and variety of a commercial bakery while keeping to our roots: We still cut, weigh and roll our doughs by hand, and continue to do our part in spreading love into the community, one loaf at a time.

Make sure you keep scrolling to meet the kitchen staff that make our products and our participant skills training possible. And that’s a wrap on a 40 year journey of a local Halifax bakery. We’re giving back to the community and offering a taste of what a proudly Nova Scotian, hand-made, social enterprise can do.