Spring WORKSHOPS 2025:
Wholegrain or Blended Sourdough Sandwich Loaf Workshop
Sunday May 25th @ Heather’s Hearth (1646 Mineview Rd, Cobden)
10:00am – 2:00pm
Cost: $230+HST
10am: Arrive and Welcome
10am-2:00pm or so: Course instruction, Breaks & Lunch
6-8 participants max.
Please read our Workshop Terms & Cancellation Policy HERE.
This workshop is going to teach you how to take care of a wholegrain starter and how to make soft, sandwich shaped loaves that will be sure to be a hit with your kids (or anyone in your household!).
You get to choose to make a 100% wholegrain loaf or a loaf that is blended white/wholegrain. We will be using a heritage whole wheat flour, but will also talk about using SPELT, EINKORN, & KHORASAN.
We will talk about how to source these flours and what you can use in the meantime.
This workshop is suitable for complete beginners and amateur sourdough bakers who want to enhance their repertoire.
*You can use a white starter to make this bread so if you already have a starter and still want to take this workshop that is totally OK! We will go over this in the workshop.
What you will learn:
- the workings of sourdough bread baking, from mixing, shaping to baking from a wholegrain perspective
- How to bake your bread at HOME
- How to take care of your starter
- About different flours & grains
Go home with:
- A baked loaf to take home PLUS a loaf to bake at home
- A healthy bubbly wholewheat sourdough starter
- Your very own Sourdough bread baking ebook with recipe, method and lots of information, sourdough starter maintenance, the full method, resources & recipes
- New knowledge and excitement about baking bread!
Link to sign up HERE
Once on the ordering site *Use the blue drop down menu to choose “Workshops 2025”
If you have any questions please email me: heather@heathershearth.ca
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Sourdough Simplified
Sunday June 22nd @ Heather’s Hearth (1646 Mineview Rd. Cobden, ON)
10am-2:30pm
$230+HST
10am: Arrive and Welcome
10am-2:30pm: Course instruction, Breaks & Lunch
6 participants max.
Please read our Workshop Terms & Cancellation Policy HERE.
Come and get the full experience of how to bake sourdough bread in a small group. This course allows you to mix your own dough from start to finish, as well as learn how to troubleshoot and take care of your starter. We cover a lot in this time-it will set you up to bake a loaf at home with success.
There will lots of time to explore ideas and discuss questions and misunderstandings as they come up, as well as extra shaping practice & touching on adding more wholegrain flour to your bread.
Bread baking is a journey and hiccups are normal, however with a strong foundation you will know how to assess what went wrong and move forward! Beginners are welcome and amateur bakers will also get something out of this experience. We’ll also be enjoying a homemade seasonal lunch during the workshop!
What you will learn:
- the workings of sourdough bread baking, from mixing, shaping to baking
- How to bake your bread at HOME
- How to take care of your starter
- About different flours & grains
- How to bake a classic sourdough as well as how modify it with extra ingredients (seeds, roasted garlic, cheese etc), and how to gradually add in whole wheat flour.
Go home with:
- A baked loaf to take home
- A loaf to bake at home
- A healthy bubbly white sourdough starter
- Your very own Sourdough bread baking ebook with recipe, method and lots of information, sourdough starter maintenance, the full method, resources & recipes
- New knowledge and excitement about baking bread!
Lunch and refreshments provided.
Link to sign up HERE
Once on the ordering site *Use the blue drop down menu to choose “Workshops 2025”
If you have any questions please email me: heather@heathershearth.ca
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FAQs
Do I have to know how to bake bread before I take a course?
No! You can be a complete and utter beginner! I teach you everything you need to know and you will go home knowing how to bake sourdough bread no matter your experience.
I have tried baking sourdough bread before with no luck…will this course help?
Yes! I have had multiple students take my course who have tried to bake sourdough bread before-either on their own with a cookbook or from the internet. They have gone on after taking my course to bake sourdough bread with much more success!
I haven’t been able to keep a sourdough starter alive or thriving before. Will this course help me do so?
Yes. I can give you a lot of information and knowledge to help you troubleshoot taking care of your sourdough starter. We spend a fair amount of time on this in both courses because it is the foundation of sourdough baking!
I want to learn how to bake sourdough bread with wholegrain flours? Do you cover this?
We talk about it in our workshops but this isn’t the main focus. If I ever develop a wholegrain workshop it will be on here and my social media outlets for you to find out about!