Meet Silver Hills
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Hello there.
There are a couple of things about Silver Hills we’d love to share.
First off, we believe the simple things in life are best.
Second, we live this belief with our breads and bagels by making them the way they should be: as simple, organic and delicious as possible, and made with sprouted organic grains in their purest form to provide the highest nutritional value for you and your family.
Plus we try to help you lead a healthier lifestyle by sharing what we’ve learned about how important it is to use the right ingredients—and how they make a eating well taste good, too. We hope you enjoy the information as much as our bread. OK, maybe not quite as much, but a whole lot anyway.
How we got here
Making our story as simple as our bread isn’t easy, but here it goes.
It all started with a guy named Stan Smith. After high school, Stan learned to bake with sprouted grains and brought this knowledge back to his dad’s high school in Kitwanga, BC, where he taught students how to bake with these new-fangled sprouted grains. After a couple of years, Stan left the school with no intentions of getting into the food biz. Funny how life turns out, isn’t it?
Along came Brad Brousson. He worked at a lifestyle spa in the North Okanagan Valley (near Lumby, BC) called the Silver Hills Guest House. Why the name? Because a forest fire had given the local mountains a silvery sheen (who knew?). The spa’s focus was healthy living, so it seemed natural that a sprouted grain bakery would fit in. Having mastered his craft at the same Kitwanga school bakery as Stan, Brad lovingly removed the first Silver Hills Bakery loaves from the oven in 1986.
The bakery got big…too big for a boutique spa. So Brad rang up Stan and his wife Kathy with a crazy idea: buy the bakery together. And so it was done. After moving shop to a farm in Lumby, BC in 1991, the three partners finally settled on the perfect location in Abbotsford, BC: it was close enough to customers to maximize the freshness of our breads, yet rural enough for all in the Silver Hills team to enjoy the simpler, healthier lifestyle they so firmly believed in.
And we’re still here today, baking the good bread and leading the good life.