100 year old Alaska Sourdough Starter

ORGANIC ACTIVE FRESH SOURDOUGH STARTEROur wild sourdough starter is cultivated in Alaska made with 100% organic ingredients, and started with glacier water. The nature of our yeast allows you to activate your starter and begin working with sourdough much sooner than with dehydrated started. This Sourdough starter was started in Anchorage, AK. When you feed your starter you are using the same yeasts that Alaskans every day, ensuring that you are baking with an active, healthy, and effective starter. Sourdough History in Alaska: The early ‘frontiersmen’ that came to Alaska maintained a sourdough starter to leaven their bread. Frontiersmen in Alaska would wear a pouch of starter around their neck to keep it from freezing in the cold Alaskan winter nights. Legend has it that Alaskan miners in the 1890s even slept with their starters to keep them from freezing during the cold winter months. Today, old, grizzled Alaskans are known as “Sourdoughs” in homage to the prospectors, miners, and tra