Est. Moatsville · Artisan Bakery

Your morning
starts with
a loaf that
remembers

Every Freeman's Bakery loaf is built on three things: time, patience, and flour that actually tastes like bread. No shortcuts. No compromises. Just honest baking the way it should be.

100%
Sourdough
48h
Cold Ferment
Local
Ingredients
Fresh artisan sourdough loaves cooling on a wooden rack at Freeman's Bakery

"The best sourdough in the county. Period."

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Baker shaping sourdough dough by hand at Freeman's Bakery in Moatsville
Our Story

Baked slow.
Sold fast.

Freeman's Bakery started with a simple conviction: bread should taste like bread again. Not the soft, shelf-stable stuff you find in plastic bags. Real bread. The kind that crackles when you tear it open and smells like your kitchen became a bakery.

We bake here in Moatsville, using a 48-hour cold-ferment process that develops flavor no shortcut can replicate. Our sourdough starters are older than most recipes. Our flour is stone-milled. Our ovens fire up before dawn so the first thing you smell when you walk in is something worth stopping for.

This isn't a factory. It's a bakery. There's a difference.

2016
Founded in
Moatsville
7am
First loaves
come out
The Process

The craft behind
every loaf

01

Mix

Flour, water, salt, and starter. That's it. We source stone-milled flour from regional mills and nothing else.

02

Ferment

48 hours in the cold. Slow fermentation builds complex flavor and a crumb structure that's impossible to rush.

03

Shape

Hand-shaped, not machine-pressed. Each loaf gets the attention it would get from a baker who cares about the result.

04

Bake

Deck ovens at peak heat. Steam injected for crust. Baked until the crust sings — that's how you know it's ready.

Freeman's Bakery deck ovens with fresh bread coming out at dawn
Visit Us

Come say
hello

Location

43 Richman Rd
Moatsville, WV 26405

Hours

Monday – Friday: 6:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Saturday: 6:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Sunday: Closed

Fresh bread doesn't wait.
Neither should you.

Stop by before we sell out, or call ahead to reserve your favorites. We bake every night so you don't have to think about it in the morning.

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