Sourdough breadmaking workshop

1-day course, 9am-4.30pm,  €155 per person.

Price includes

• Coffee/ tea/ homebrew kefir & kombucha served throughout the day.
• A nutritious, balanced homemade meal based around sourdough and homegrown organic veggies and herbs.
• About 1kg of sourdough loaves of your own making to take home.
• A sample of my own sourdough starter to get started straight away!
• A nature walk through our Cider Orchard Agroforestry plots where you will see heritage wheat varieties growing among our apple trees depending on the season.

You will learn

• How to start a sourdough starter from scratch and how to maintain it.
• How to bake delicious pure sourdough loaves based on recipes from the latest scientific studies on bread & nutrition.
• How to work your bread baking around your own busy schedule.
• What is happening inside the dough throughout the fermentation and why these recipes are best to preserve the nutritional elements of the grain while offering a delightfully flavoured and digestible bread.
• About the wheat family tree and what are "heritage" wheat varieties versus modern wheat varieties.
• About non coeliac gluten intolerance and how sourdough bread can be perfectly tolerated.
• About growing heirloom wheat varieties through the practices of regenerative agriculture.