Please see below for all the workshop details and how to sign up!
Please read our Workshop Terms & Cancellation Policy HERE.
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Spring Workshops 2023
Please read our Workshop Terms & Cancellation Policy HERE.
Gluten Free Sourdough 101 @ Boreal Farm Wakefield
Saturday April 1st
1-4:30pm
$150 (HST Incl)
In this course you will learn how to take care of a sorghum sourdough starter (that you get from me!) and how to bake a GF sourdough loaf. This bread is flavourful, nutritious, slices well and can be frozen. It is not like the fluffy white stuff that you can buy in the store, nor is it so dense that it’s like a brick. It a perfect everyday loaf for those of you who miss bread!
What you’ll learn:
- Full hands on instruction on how to bake a GF sourdough loaf (including modifications for your needs, re. allergies/sensitivities/preferences)
- Full instruction on how to take care of a sorghum sourdough starter
- Tips on where to find ingredients & tools for baking sourdough bread
What you get:
- A sorghum sourdough starter to take home with you
- Your very own GF sourdough bread baking ebook with recipe, method and lots of information, sourdough starter maintenance, the full method, resources & recipes
- A gluten free sourdough loaf to bake at home
- Watch a demo of baking your gluten free sourdough and gluten free sourdough cracker making (and help a bit too!)
- Knowledge to help you kickstart your Gluten free sourdough baking journey!
Ingredients in the bread we will be making:
sorghum & buckwheat flour, arrowroot starch, GF oats, sunflower seeds, psyllium husk, olive oil, sea salt
If you need any ingredient changes please let me know before you sign up and I will see what I can do.
Snacks and refreshments will be provided.
If you have any questions ahead of time please email me: heather@heathershearth.ca
Link to sign up HERE
Once on the ordering site *Use the blue drop down menu to choose “Heather’s Hearth Sourdough Bread Workshops Winter 2023”
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Sourdough Simplified @ Boreal Farm Store Wakefield
10am-2:30pm
$250 (HST Incl)
10am: Arrive and Welcome
10am-2:30pm: Course instruction, Breaks & Lunch
6-8 participants max.
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.
If you have any questions please email me: heather@heathershearth.ca
Link to sign up HERE
Once on the ordering site *Use the blue drop down menu to choose “Heather’s Hearth Sourdough Bread Workshops Winter 2023”
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Fulcrum Skill Share
May 19th-22nd
A full immersive weekend on a farm near Bancroft- there are various workshops running all weekend long. There are food and camping accommodations! I will be running a workshop on the Saturday, see details below. Registration for this event is through the event website.
Check it out HERE
Sourdough Bread 101
This workshop is a great intro and dive into baking sourdough bread.
In this workshop you will go through the first half of the steps of mixing to shaping with guidance and hands on practice. Then we will bake our loaves on Sunday morning for us to share with everyone at the skill share.
You will mix your own sourdough starter to take home with you and there will be lots of time for questions about anything that you need to know. I will walk you through all the steps that will be outlined for you in the booklet provided so that you have a good idea of how to do all of this at home on your own.
We will also spend some time hand milling flour so that we can explore and contemplate where flour comes from, how the grain is grown and how it is transformed when we make bread with it! There will be time to explore practical bread making questions as well as philosophical ones.
Included in the workshop:
-A white sourdough starter
-Printed booklet (28+ pages) with recipes, instructions, lots of info
-A small amount of freshly milled flour (hand milled by you!)
What we’ll do:
-Mix your own loaf from beginning to shaping
-Watch demo of scoring and baking
-Taste some freshly baked sourdough bread with some butter and other delicious toppings
-Hand mill some fresh ground flour
-I’ll teach you everything about the process of baking bread and answer any of your questions
BRING A FRIEND OPTION
Bring a friend and come at a discount. Each of you will get a sourdough starter and a booklet BUT you will have to share a bowl and all the tasks (weighing, mixing etc) so you don’t get to do every single step. It is so much fun to learn with someone you know as a team!
Register for the event and workshops HERE
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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!