Crust & Crumb Academy vs the skool CLASSIFIEDS

Crust & Crumb Academy is an amazing place where people love to share and help...

Crust & Crumb Academy is an amazing place where people love to share and help each other bake. Whether you are new or experienced, this is the place to learn. I started out with only making sourdough breads, but now I have made baguettes, ciabatta, pretzel loafs and many more. I highly recommend this skill building baking community.

Crust & Crumb Academy - More Than Bread: A Community That Inspires

I came for sourdough… and stayed for the community! Crust & Crumb Academy first showed up on my YouTube feed back in March 2026 while I was searching for ways to bake homemade sourdough bread. I had absolutely no experience baking bread. Honestly, I never had the patience for it. It was far easier to buy bread at the store than to learn how to make it myself. But when my favorite sourdough disappeared from the shelves, I started searching for recipes to recreate it at home… and that search sent me straight down the rabbit hole of sourdough baking. Somewhere along the way, Henry Hunter’s community, Crust & Crumb Academy, popped up. I saved the page for later because the information he shared was incredibly helpful. But I assumed the academy would probably be expensive, and with everything else going on in life and health, I really didn’t want to add one more paid program to my plate. Then I clicked the link. I kept looking for the cost… and couldn’t find one. Finally, I hit “Join” and realized there was absolutely no cost at all. Instead, I found free education, endless resources, and a genuine community—with no sales pitch and no catch. What I found was one of the warmest, most generous, uplifting online communities I’ve experienced in a very long time. There’s laughter. Friendship. Encouragement. Education. Real connection. And the best part? You can actually talk to Henry himself. Ask questions. Get advice. Learn the art of baking—not just sourdough, but enriched breads, yeasted breads, ciabatta, poolish methods, different starters, fermentation techniques, and so much more. The amount of knowledge shared inside this community is incredible. I originally joined just wanting to learn sourdough. What I found instead was a group of like-minded people who genuinely enjoy helping one another grow. The Saturday bake-along is one highlight of the week. Henry guides everyone through the process with prep instructions throughout the week so you know exactly what to expect and what you’ll need. Then, during the actual bake-along, the community comes alive—people sharing wins, struggles, questions, photos, frustrations, breakthroughs, and encouragement in real time. Henry steers the ship beautifully, but he also gives the community room to truly be a community. That’s what makes this place special. One of Henry’s sayings is: “Perfection is not required. Progress is.” You can feel that spirit throughout the entire academy. I deeply appreciate Henry’s generosity, his love for people, his passion for baking, and the way he genuinely listens to the community. Henry welcomes suggestions. Questions get answered. Nobody feels forgotten. Everyone matters here. Personally, I’ve learned so much already—hydration levels, starter care, fermentation timing, dough handling, shaping, troubleshooting… things I never imagined I would understand or enjoy. And my favorite so far? Ciabatta. I absolutely love working with high-hydration dough now. Never in a million years did I think dough would be so fun to work with, but it truly is. Baking has become incredibly therapeutic for me. Had a rough day? Go make bread. Grab a cup of coffee (or favorite drink) and meet with community members who quickly become friends. There’s something deeply satisfying about pulling a beautiful loaf from the oven with a crust you never thought you could create yourself. If you’re looking to learn how to bake—or simply longing for genuine community in a world that desperately needs more of this — I cannot recommend Crust & Crumb Academy enough. This is more than bread making. It’s community at its finest.

Stacey Avraham · May 12, 2026

The whole concept is great and I'm learning more about sourdough.

The whole concept is great and I'm learning more about sourdough. I tried the pancakes yesterday and they were a hit. The pretzel bread is very good just a lot of steps.

The skool CLASSIFIEDS helps you win!

Hey, everybody. My name is Matt and I have been a member of the Classifieds now for almost six months, I believe, and it has been awesome. Shannon has cultivated a really cool culture here and everybody is just going around and obviously sharing and promoting, but also reacting to and using it as a vehicle for discovering new communities. So it's been a really, really awesome space to be in and yeah, I'm definitely happy that I joined. So being a member has been really cool because I am able to obviously learn firsthand about all sorts of incredible communities, but as a premium member, I can also go around and promote my community and even do masterclasses inside, which has been really awesome. I've learned a lot from the people who are doing masterclasses. And because you need to think about how to kind of pitch and promote what you're working on, it is also a forcing function, just being there and seeing what's working well for other community builders and how they're going about posting things. And then of course, getting shout outs from other members has been really fun. So other members are using their daily allotment of posting ability to actually even shout me out, which has just inspired me to shout them out. And it's like a really cool reciprocal sort of thing. So I'm really been enjoying being a member in that regard as well. So, if you need practice pitching or promoting or just generally learning how to better share the value of your offer, the Classifieds is a really awesome place to be because you can go and do so and try all sorts of different things all the time. So, it's really special to go and have an environment that welcomes you in doing that, but also you get to see tons of other people going about doing it. So, if you really want to go and grow in that way, I would say that's going to be a good fit. If it wouldn't be a good fit, it's probably going to be people who just want to promote and don't actively want to engage or be a part of the community in any way. If you're just looking to kind of like spit out all your stuff and go and leave, then that's not great. But, you know, if you want to become part of the community, if you want to eventually do a masterclass, you know, you want to contribute and comment there, I think the Classifieds is a great place to be for those kinds of folks. So, for all those of you who fit in that bill, we'll see you inside.

Matt Burns · May 1, 2026

best helpers

sharing so many other communities and helping people keep their communities out there

Tara Miller · Apr 9, 2026

Shannon's community is the best place to find out what is happening on other...

Shannon's community is the best place to find out what is happening on other Skool communities and promote your own events, products and community. And Shannon goes above and beyond to help you succeed in Skool!

Sharon Jones · Mar 30, 2026