For the Love of Sourdough

Sourdough School for Beginners 2.0

Here in my 1960's desert home sourdough kitchen & microbakery, we will walk through the entire sourdough baking process step by step by getting your hands into the dough and learning the

old-world skill of crafting a beautiful loaf of organic sourdough bread on our 8 foot family table.

This class will be a max of 10 local community members or those visiting our beautiful state.

Sourdough School for Beginners is broken into two informative and transformative lessons.

SOURDOUGH 101: THE STARTER SESSION

The first 60-90 minutes of class is solely dedicated to learning everything you

need to know about maintaining a robust and healthy organic sourdough starter.

We will talk about:

Environment & Temperature

How your starter performs

What to look for in your sourdough starter

How ratios work in your daily or weekly feedings

How the science works behind a wild yeast

Overall general care

You will get to feed your own sourdough starter that you take home with you in a new mason jar with cloth covers and a beautiful rose quartz to promote wellness and love in your sourdough journey.

We will talk about alternative ways to keep it thriving if you work full time too!

You will go home with a dehydrated sourdough starter in case you need a backup or you want to share the love of sourdough with someone you know with a full instruction guide on how to reactive it.

You will receive a detailed step-by-step printed guide to help guide you through your feedings once you go home along with a printed sourdough starter tips guide.

SOURDOUGH 102: DESERT ORGANIC SOURDOUGH RECIPE

The last 2-2.5 hours of the class is all about diving into my Desert Organic Sourdough recipe from start to finish. I do also include my Ancient Einkorn Sourdough recipe in your take home laminated sourdough guide to encourage you to pursue the wonderful world of ancient grains! Love local flours? We have now included FOUR additional sourdough bread recipes featuring Arizona's first (and only) Organic Regenerative Certified flour farmer and miller, Oatman Farms!

We will begin by:

Prepping your own dough

Learning about ingredients and kitchen tools

How to manipulate your dough for optimal texture

How fermentation works (especially here in the AZ desert!)

How to shape

How to score

Working with laminations

How to bake in your own home oven!

And of course enjoying a fresh slice in class with grass-fed butters, local salts and

organic olive oils for our dairy-free folks.

The class will also include a link guide to my "all things sourdough" must haves on Amazon along with your own lame blades for scoring your loaves at home. There will be an option to purchase our basic sourdough tool kit which includes a new banneton basket, linen bread bag, dough scrapper, kitchen thermometer and wooden spoon for $35. It is recommended that you purchase a bag of organic flour

(whole wheat or rye is best!) prior to class so you have food for your yeast!

I use Oatman Farms Organic Regenerative Whole Grain White Sonora flour

for my sourdough starter feedings.

This class is designed to be interactive and hands on and will last around 3.5-4 hours from start to finish, depending on group size and dialogue. It is encouraged that you bring your favorite apron and a notebook for jotting down notes if that is your learning style.

You will also need to bring your favorite kitchen mixing bowl for easy transport of your dough you start in class to take home with you to bake on your own.

Please plan on being in session for 3.5-4 hours max. Every group is different.

This class is a great opportunity for you to bring back the connection we have lost in our food making practices and within our communities, all while learning a new skill for your kitchen. With just three simple, affordable and nutritional ingredients, you can bring this old-world skill back into your daily life whether you work full time, remotely or anything in between.

No experience necessary, just a willingness to learn and connect with your local Arizona community. Children 10+ are welcome but must be accompanied by an adult, requires two seat bookings.

Wishing you a beautiful journey of discovery as you learn the art of sourdough!

I’ll see you in class!
Peace and Love,

Nicole Nungoor

Owner and Bread Curator

4.5 Hours of Hands On Instruction
Welcoming and Uplifting Environment to Learn
Digital & Print Desert Organic Sourdough Recipe Guide
Organic Country Sourdough Recipe
Organic Einkorn Sourdough Recipe
4 Additional Organic Sourdough Recipes Featuring Oatman Farms
Organic Sourdough Loaf to Bake in Class
Organic Batch of Dough You Make in Class to Bake at Home
Organic Sourdough Tasting Bar (dairy free options available)
Organic Raw Ready to Use Sourdough Starter with Mason Jar
Organic Dehydrated Sourdough Starter (your backup!)
Sourdough Starter Maintenance 101
How Fermentation Works!
Flours, Ancient Grains and What to Use
Learning to Score and Shape Your Boule
Digital and Print Kitchen Checklist
Amazon Store Front Access
Digital Keep Sake Photo
2 Lame Blades
Rose Quartz
Jar Cloth Covers
Complementary Beverage
A Wonderful Day of Learning with your Community

There is a lot of time and preparation that goes into hosting these courses along with the time commitments away from my family to enjoy these with you.

We do honor a full refund (minus a 2.9% fee incurred by Square) if notified within 10 days of your registration date (not your scheduled class date). Once you have pasted our refund window, we are unable to offer any refunds for your class seat(s). If you register for a class within 10 days of a scheduled class date, the class is non refundable should you be unable to attend.

ALL OFF SITE CLASSES ARE NON-REFUNDABLE.

Once you have registered for any class on our schedule, we will send a personal welcome message with all of our direct contact information and things you will need to do to prepare ahead of time.

Should you need to cancel after that 10 day period or are not able to attend the class last minute, we will arrange a time for you to pick-up your items you would otherwise have received in class.

You can also gift the seat to anyone you know at no cost.

If you are more than 30 minutes late to a private sourdough class, the class will be cancelled and rescheduled for a future date with a $75 charge for re-scheduling.

If you have any unanswered questions about the course or scheduling a class with friends or family, please connect with us via our CONTACT PAGE.

We will reach out to you asap!

Thank you so much for your interest in Sourdough School for Beginners!

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