Homemade small-batch sourdough

Healthy, delicious bread made from simple ingredients: flour, water, salt, and time. Grab a jar of our starter and bake along at home.

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from the pantry

Baked this week

straight from my kitchen

Bake day, every week

Seven sourdough loaves cooling on wire racks by a sunny window
cooling by the window
Focaccia slices packed in kraft window bags
bagged & ready
Scored sourdough loaves next to a bread slicer and oven mitts
fresh out of the dutch oven
Flower-scored loaves on a rack, one cut open to show the crumb, with bagged focaccia behind
that crumb though

in person, at the farm table

Bake with us

No classes on the calendar yet, but they’re coming soon. Want first dibs on a seat? Email nancysleavenlife@gmail.com.

about the maker

Hi, I'm Nancy.

Leaven Life is baked in our family kitchen, on the same granite counter where homework gets done and game-day snacks get packed. It started with a jar of flour, water, and a lot of patience, and grew into weekend loaves for neighbors, trays of bagels and pretzels, and cinnamon rolls that never last past breakfast.

Everything is made in small batches and baked to order. Starter is split from the same jar every morning, and loaves are scored by hand, so if you see a preorder tag, that's your window.

The Leaven Life family smiling together in their seats at the racetrack, with palm trees and mountains behind them
the crew behind the crumb ♡

bake along at home

Recipes

Coming soon

My go-to recipes are on their way, so you can bake Leaven Life bread in your own kitchen with a jar of our starter.