~Bread Offerings ~ September 2020

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Hello everyone, One of my most important mentors always says that you can ethically tell or ethically sell, but you cannot do both together. She’s an herbalist, so maybe there are differences, but I think there’s so much wisdom there. Over the years I’ve discovered that I’m more of a teller than a seller. I love to teach! To that end, my bread offerings will now be part of a larger vision to teach more home bakers how to do what I do in my home on a weekly basis. Any of these breads that you want to learn, … Read more

~Bread Offerings ~ July 2020

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Hello there, We need to talk. Something has been bothering me for a while, and I wanted to get it out there to start a conversation. I know many of us are thinking about racial equality right now and how to make a better America for all Americans, rather than using the systems we have in place to bolster some, while leaving others dejected from the apparent values we espouse. One thing I’ve been thinking about a lot lately is opportunity hoarding and a more fair distribution of wealth. While I think there is a larger conversation to be … Read more

~Bread Offerings~ June 2020

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Hello people, Well, it seems we have some work to do. That’s always been the case, but it has become much more acute in these past few months, and heightened still these past few weeks. There is nothing I love more than to break bread with someone and delve into a lengthy conversation about the state of the world. I’m open to doing this if you are. I don’t have all the answers and I make a bunch of mistakes, but I’m open to having the difficult conversations, and I’ve been trying to learn to sit with discomfort instead … Read more

~Bread Offerings ~ May 2020

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Hello bread friends, I don’t even know where to start. Desperate for connection, I reach out to friends to ask how they are. They answer with the same question: “How are you doing?!?” And then I sit there, stumped, trying to figure out how I can authentically answer this question. There is so much cognitive dissonance in the pandemic. My heart is constantly breaking, over and over, listening to stories of people losing jobs, or worse, losing people. And then I sit down to dinner with my little family and I enjoy the time, even more so for knowledge … Read more

~Bread Offerings ~ March 2020

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Hello Friends, There is a little mill not far from me that I’ve heard about for years. It was built in 1887 and runs on the power of water passing through a huge turbine. No grid electricity; just the force of gravity and the weight of water. Impressive, to say the least. Although this is not technically a working mill, per se, it does work. Really well. I asked the volunteer if we could run the mill, and I was geered up to wait for a half hour while he got it all going. “Sure!” he answered in swift … Read more

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