Collection: Live Sourdough Starters

Choose a live sourdough starter for your baking

Our Australian live sourdough starters are handcrafted in small batches and fed with organic flour before dispatch. A live culture gives you a head start: follow the arrival and feeding instructions, then bake when your starter is active and ready.

Wheat, rye or spelt?

• Wheat: a versatile starting point for classic white sourdough and our beginner sourdough recipe.
• Rye: choose a rye-fed culture if you enjoy baking rye loaves. Try our rye sourdough recipe.
• Spelt: a spelt-fed culture to pair with our wholegrain spelt recipe.

Wheat, rye and spelt contain gluten. For gluten-free baking, see our gluten-free starters and flour.

Live or dehydrated?

A live starter is already hydrated; a dehydrated starter needs reactivation before regular feeding and baking. Compare live and dehydrated sourdough starters to choose what suits your schedule.

Plan your first loaf

Use the sourdough hydration calculator to work out ingredient quantities and explore our bread flour range.