2021 co-op

Hello there! My name is Zoë Johnson, I am a second year student studying at Antioch College in yellow springs Ohio, here I will document my cooperative and experiential learning process and experience on my very first co-op, CampHill Copake. CampHill is a (almost) self sustaining intentional community that supports and cares for people with special needs under the utilization of Waldorf practices.

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To help with the navigation of this blog I have developed a key of sorts for the tags (the #ed words or phrases at the bottom of the post)

The days of the week tags (#Monday, #Tuesday, #Wednesday, #Thursday and #Friday) will correlate with the bread that is either made or formed and baked for deliveries to the village on that day!

Other tags like #cookies, #scones, #savory scones, #sweetscones, #kombucha, #starter or #fermentation will connect you with the correlating posts on the topics!

—and other tags with key words like: #Antioch College, #Camphill, #co-op, #bakery, deliveries and #winter 2021 co-op, etc; will link you with information or photos on it! I tag lots of other things as well but this key illuminates the backbone of posts pertaining to my co-op experience regarding my daily routine and schedule in the bakery!

*updated regularly as I learn new recipes and skills!

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My time at camphill has come to an end! I enjoyed myself severely in the bakery and will never forget it! It saddens me that the last few days were not spent in the bakery due to covid concerns but all and all I couldn’t have asked for a safer, successful, or more comfortable and interactive first co-op! Especially during these uncertain times. So again, thanks CampHill bakery and all who inhabit and care for it! 

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We’re doing inventory and spring cleaning in the bakery! As you can imagine it’s tedious and never ending! ft. Sorting out bad grains and tossing out old breads to the pigs!

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Last Thursday in the bakery Virginia made cinnamon raisin bagels!  yum!

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The beginning and the end of my zine!

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And....more zine material! Transparent photos from the bakery!

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Here are some more photos of quick drawings I've done for my zine on the bakery!

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A rather large egg gifted to me by a coworker. I hate eggs lol

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It's been busy here at Camphill! And I've neglected my blog but here are some bits and pieces for my zine

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Non-bakery, yet baking related; Lavender orange cupcakes ? Muffins? Both? For orientation last week.

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I’ve been making the Monday Focaccia for the past three weeks now, it’s my favorite bread to make. Rosemary on top instead of poppy seeds.

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Non-bakery related but: I Went on a fun / scary weekend hike to a waterfall (on a trail coated in a 1 inch layer of melting ice, going upward) two weekends ago and it was the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.

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On Thursdays I run the bakery by myself with the help of two other volunteers who are part time in the bakery, it’s often a rather slow monotonous day but today we started making the weekly Challah bread and that really spiced things up! This is my favorite bread to make and eat! When I was attending the Waldorf school I went to as a kid we made it and ate it for lunch! It was my favorite thing then and still is now!

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A simple video of me braiding the NOW WEEKLY Challah bread we will be making! (It was too long to upload here)

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The bakery also came up with a new bread this week, it’s called ‘it’s bread’ and it’s ridiculously funny. It’s a simple whole wheat sandwich bread, nothing fancy here at all lol 

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Also on Wednesday this week I assisted in the rest of the sourdough and whole wheat bread baking! I also got to watch an experiment of croissants!

*in the first two photos you can see a sheet Pan with towels and water in it, that goes into the oven as well and helps with stream!

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I made the Focaccia bread again this week! This week I learned how to fold the dough better, how to measure out the loaves and how to prepare them for baking!