LICENCE SUMMARY
Bake Diversity Bread® Under Licence
Diversity Bread® is protected — not to exclude, but to empower. This licence is for small, real bakeries: bricks-and-mortar shops, microbakeries, and Sourdough School Diploma graduates. It allows you to bake and sell Diversity Bread® using the Botanical Blend system, as long as you follow a few key principles.
To be licensed, your bread must:
- Use at least 20% Botanical Blend flour (Triple X, Botanical Blend No.2, or 0+)
- Be made with a live sourdough starter
- Ferment for at least 18 hours (ambient or retarded)
- Be made with flour free from glyphosate (preferably organic or regenerative)
- Include a QR code for customers to learn more at diversitybread.com
- Follow the Baking as Lifestyle Medicine Protocol — a seven-stage process that’s about more than baking. It’s about nourishment, sharing, and system change.
Preferably, you’ll use stoneground, non-fortified flour, but we understand not every bakery can.
This licence allows you to use the terms:
- Diversity Bread®
- Botanical Blend®
- Baking as Lifestyle Medicine ™
It covers loaves, but also things like sandwiches, baguettes, and pizza — as long as the core standards are met.
There are no health claims allowed (except for the Proven Bread™ , which is reserved for clinical use by Dr Vanessa Kimbell).
Licence Fees:
- Under 10 tonnes of Diversity Bread per year: £1 flat fee
- Over 10 tonnes: £1,000 base licence + £50 per tonne
- Diploma graduates may apply for a student licence at £1 (limited to <10 tonnes/year)
2.5p per loaf funds scholarships and social prescribing. All licence income funds scholarships and supports the Scholarships and Bursaries at The Sourdough School.
Diversity Bread® is protected — not to exclude, but to empower. This licence is for small, real bakeries: bricks-and-mortar shops, microbakeries, and Sourdough School Diploma graduates. It allows you to bake and sell Diversity Bread® using the Botanical Blend system, as long as you follow a few key principles.
To be licensed, your bread must:
- Use at least 20% Botanical Blend flour (Triple X, Botanical Blend No.2, or 0+)
- Be made with a live sourdough starter
- Ferment for at least 18 hours (ambient or retarded)
- Be made with flour free from glyphosate (preferably organic or regenerative)
- Include a QR code for customers to learn more at diversitybread.com
- Follow the Baking as Lifestyle Medicine Protocol — a seven-stage process that’s about more than baking. It’s about nourishment, sharing, and system change.
Preferably, you’ll use stoneground, non-fortified flour, but we understand not every bakery can.
This licence allows you to use the terms:
- Diversity Bread®
- Botanical Blend®
- Baking as Lifestyle Medicine ™
It covers loaves, but also things like sandwiches, baguettes, and pizza — as long as the core standards are met.
There are no health claims allowed (except for the Proven Bread™ , which is reserved for clinical use by Dr Vanessa Kimbell).
Licence Fees:
- Under 10 tonnes of Diversity Bread per year: £1 flat fee
- 2.5p from every loaf funds to The Sourdough School as the system change contribution. All licence income funds scholarships and supports education.
- Over 10 tonnes: £1,000 base licence + £50 per tonne
- Diploma graduates may apply for a student licence at £1 (limited to <10 tonnes/year)
Every loaf funds system change. All licence income funds scholarships and supports education.