08/25/2026
I’ve had a lot of people as me for starter and if you come to Shades of Lavender Farm when I’m there, I will GIVE IT to you ( I always say for the love of Bread 🫶🏻). but if you’re in Kalamazoo and you really want to try sourdough, Sarkozy Bakery ALSO gives away their sourdough mother!
The most expensive ingredient in sourdough is time, and there’s something therapeutic  about having your hands in the dough and creating something nourishing for yourself, at least for me 😊.
I love to see our community supporting each other, it really isn’t about the bread… It’s so much more than that.
Let’s bake it Wild 
There's been a little bit of miscommunication, we do not sell sourdough starter... We give it away!
We've always been happy to pass along our 40+ year old starter to people who are interested in giving sourdough a try at home but it really picked up during the pandemic. It's fantastic that people are showing such an interest and passion in what we do at the bakery that they want to give it a try at home! And we want to encourage that any way we can.
Establishing a starter was the biggest hurdle I had in my sourdough journey, and it wasn't until a friend (shout-out Aubrey!) gave me a starter that she got from another friend, stretching all the way to a baker in Alaska that I was able to have a consistent, thriving sourdough starter.
So if you'd like to be a parent of a Sarkozy sourdough starter, just bring a container by the bakery and we'll give you some for free. And if you're insistent on parting with your money, we've got these nifty little bumper stickers you can buy.