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.

Frontiersman Sourdough was started in Anchorage, AK to make baking with sourdough easily accessible to everyone. 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 chinks 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 yeast collected from ancient Egyptian pottery. That yeast reaches back 4,500 years, to the earliest known use of sourdough.

Charitable Giving

Environmental conservation is a founding tenet of Frontiersman Sourdough. A portion of our profits go towards protecting Alaska’s wild natural environment; an awe inspiring landscape of mountains, glaciers, rivers, seas, forests, tundra, and rich wildlife that are all invaluable.

Sustainable Products and Packaging

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

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.

Our shipping materials are all biodegradable

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