About

Our Sourdough Starter:

Our wild sourdough starter is cultivated in Alaska, shelf stable, made with 100% organic ingredients, and packaged in biodegradable pouches.

The stable nature of our yeast allows you to activate your starter and begin working with sourdough at your convenience; next week or years from now. When you activate your Frontiersman Sourdough Starter, you are waking up the same yeasts that we use 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. Today, old, grizzled Alaskans are known as “Sourdoughs” in homage to the prospectors, miners, and trappers that explored Alaska.

Our sourdough starter can remain in it’s dormant shelf-stable state for years. Alaskan frontiersman would use sourdough starter to fill gaps in their log cabins. Folks in present day Alaska have collected some of this dormant sourdough starter and made bread with it! The most impressive example of baking with dormant yeast comes from archeologists in 2019 baking a loaf of bread with sourdough collected from ancient Egyptian pottery. The oldest known sourdough was scraped from Ancient Egyptian pottery, reaching back ~5,500 years.

Charitable Giving

A portion of all profits are donated to environmental conservation in Alaska, including:

Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center; Outdoor Heritage Foundation; WWF; and Nature Conservancy

Let’s protect Alaska’s awe inspiring landscape of mountains, glaciers, rivers, seas, forests, tundra, and rich wildlife that are all invaluable.

Sustainable Products and Packaging

All of our shipping and packaging materials are all biodegradable

Our Artisanal Alaskan Sourdough is made with 100% organic ingredients and packaged in biodegradable pouches.

Our Woodcrafts are made of sustainably sourced maple and cherry wood by veteran-owned, Anchorage based wood worker; Arctic Appalachian (@ArcticAppalachian)

Our Tea Towels and Aprons are made of 100% organic and fair trade certified materials in partnership with a B-Corp.

Our Bannetons are made of sustainably harvested spruce wood

Our Hoodies are made of 100% organic cotton.

We operate in Anchorage, AK , the ancestral homeland of the Dena'ina peoples.