Anyone can make a great loaf of sourdough.
Springboard your sourdough journey with a starter acclimated to our unique high altitude environment. Learn to maintain your new starter and bake a tasty loaf of crusty sourdough bread in a hands-on workshop in the Woodland Bake House kitchen.
This private, small group class covers the fundamentals of sourdough for the high altitude baker. My goal is to empower you with the knowledge and confidence to make homemade bread a part of your everyday life, whether you want to bake weekly or every once in a while.
What You’ll Learn
How to care for your starter
Steps of sourdough with hands-on practice of each phase
Sourdough timeline meets real life
Just enough science to know what’s going on with your dough
Tips and tricks for successful bread at high elevation
What to do with it with sourdough “discard”
Class Length: 2.5 hours
Cost: $129 per person
Up to 4 participants per class (ages 15+)
Intro to Sourdough
Class Schedule: Classes are usually 1-3:30pm on weekends. Purchase your registration using the button below and let us know your ideal date(s) in the check out form. We’ll be in touch shortly and will do our best to accomodate your schedule!
Whether you are learning solo or with a group, your class time is a private booking.
Save your seat
2.5 hour private class for up to 4 participants. Price is per seat. Tara will contact you after purchase to schedule your class date.
Class Registration Includes:
100 grams of sourdough starter (which you’ll feed during class)
Starter kit of baking tools including starter jar, spurtle, proofing basket, and lamé
WBH tried-and-true classic sourdough recipe
2 loaves worth of sourdough (1 baked and 2 half loaves to finish at home)
Private, welcoming, and personalized instruction
Follow-up Q&A support (up to 3 text exchanges)
My Philosophy: A Little Baking Science, A Dash of Intuition
Sourdough can get really complicated, with lots of terms, techniques, and expensive equipment. Check out the comments in more sourdough Facebook groups, and you’ll see people swear by a laundry list of rules that conflict wildly and stop so many beginners from even trying.
Other blogs and influencers would have you throw out every rule and just follow your heart. But that’s hard to do when your heart doesn’t know where it’s headed. This method just gave me a lot of anxiety and no sure footing to improve my next batch.
My baking philosophy sits between these two schools of thought. I’ve studied and practiced with the goal to learn which rules to follow and which ones I can break. I use tools and practices that may seem rigid but really just take out some of the guesswork, so I can spend my energy (and money) in the places that need my attention. For me, this yields consistently good bread amidst the bustle of normal life.
Let’s break make bread together.
Nothing has brought more joy to my kitchen journey than cutting into a fresh loaf of bread that I’ve made with my own hands. I’ve been baking with yeast at high elevation for 5 years and have stopped buying bread from the grocery store.
Through bread baking, I’ve learned to be more intentional and aware in the kitchen, to slow down and adapt, to savor and appreciate simplicity. And I want to share all of that with you!
Where You’ll Learn
Join me in the Bake House kitchen at 9100’ to begin or expand your bread baking journey. Our cozy cabin kitchen is the perfect focused space for up to 4 people to get their hands in dough.
We are located in Florissant, just 45 minutes west of Colorado Springs. You’ll receive the exact address in the week leading up to your class.