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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

How I Got Into Sourdough

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Go big or go home! We talk about the unique way I got into sourdough making and how Mike’s trip to Italy inspired him to recreate the prolific italian flavors at home.  Comment your favorite part of this week's episodes on @rosehillsourdough’s instagram post about being on this podcast for a chance to win a Rosehill Sourdough BreadMat, an rhsd wood pulp proofing basket AND a number 10 Dutch oven! Entries valid from Monday, June 26,2023 - Monday, July 3, 2023. Winner will be announced on @rosehillsourdough Instagram!  Connect With Mike Vaona: Rosehill Sourdough started as a way to document my sourdough process for my own benefit. It quickly turned into an opportunity to share my knowledge with the world. Baking with Rosehill Sourdough has sold thousands of copies and I am excited to provide the baking community with the best tools, tips, and techniques so they can feed themselves, their families, and their communities. Website Instagram YouTube Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Last year, both Jacques and myself planted some wheat, and let's just say you didn't really

0:20.1

get in what you put out there, because you're supposed to put in, you know, let's say,

0:23.3

a pound of wheat, we did, I think, winter wheat at the time, and I think I got a pound

0:28.5

of dried wheat seed out. And so what was the point, right? And that's the question that you

0:32.7

ask yourself when you do these really more intense processes. But we have Mike Veyona back

0:37.2

on the show from Rosso Sourdough. I don't know if we had been in touch at this point in time, Mike,

0:42.4

but it was a little bit painful to grow it and get literally the exact amount I planted.

0:47.9

It was like, why did I do that? I was following along. Yeah. Well, I will say it was fun.

0:56.3

The process, of course, was quite beautiful, honestly, when you see the wheat, especially winter

1:02.0

wheat, because you're sort of growing it into this more beautiful time of the year as winter comes

1:05.9

along. And I don't know, it was just very pleasing, and then you get into the processing part where

1:11.2

you're threshing, you're winnowing, you're then grinding it down. And by the time I ground it down,

1:15.5

I was feeling pretty good. Yes, I didn't grow it super well, because I should get like five or

1:20.2

10 to one ratio out, but I didn't. But when I ground it out, Jacques and I went into the kitchen

1:26.3

and started baking, I used some of his starter. And I was cooking. I wasn't baking, right? Because

1:33.0

you know, I don't have to tell you, but baking is much more precise and cooking is much more

1:38.3

loose. And I was baking like a cook wood and just bop, bop, bop, adding little bits and pieces of

1:43.7

things. Somehow it came out. It came out okay. So our first, our first full homegrown sourdough loaf,

1:52.0

I did like a scoring pattern with this wheat. Jacques was, he was doubting, he's like, oh, I only do

1:57.6

like the big, you know, cut, right? And I somehow like scored in like a piece of wheat into it.

2:04.4

And it somehow turned out really well. And that was my story of how I got into it. So I had to get

2:09.2

into it from the growing side. Yeah. I love that. And that was your very first, you went

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