Here there Bread Starter guide

Slow fermentation

Here there Bread

Bread raised on wild yeast, and the dried starter that will raise yours. Four ingredients, several days, and a jar on the counter that is quietly alive.

Loaves and starter from our kitchen. The shop opens soon.


Flour, water, salt, time. The last one does most of the work — a long, cool rise is what builds the sour note and the open, uneven crumb that a fast one never manages.

Everything we bake comes off the same starter, fed each morning and kept in a jar with a cloth over the top. Dried down to flakes, that same culture keeps for years and wakes up in about a week.

Just opened a packet?

Wake up your starter

A spoonful of pale flakes that looks like nothing at all. Feed it for a week and it becomes the most dependable thing in your kitchen. Here is the whole process on video, one day at a time.

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