A Northport cherry farm is keeping busy this winter offering an experience with different smells and tastes from what you’d normally expect: workshops on how to make fresh sourdough bread.
Owner Sarah Hallstedt said she’s already hosted 10 workshops since the first sourdough workshop in November, with five others scheduled for January. The classes in their kitchen will likely go until March, Hallstedt added, and a couple may be scheduled during the summer, too, considering the great interest she’s received so far.
“It worked out this winter and it’s after the cherry season,” Hallstedt said. “It’s a new thing I’d like to continue doing, and we just finished up wreaths right before Christmas. It gives me an excuse to get out of my office and connect with people. The people who want to come, want to come, and they are excited about it… people get here and they find out they can actually make it (sourdough) and they are excited about that, and that just fills my heart.”
