This Started With Bread

Squirrelly Girl didn't begin as an idea for an online sourdough starter company. It began with a micro bakery, a love of baking, and a whole lot of bread.

In 2018, we started baking artisan bread from our micro bakery and delivering it directly to people in our local community.

What started with home deliveries grew into something much bigger. Over the years, we've continued that baking journey, learning through the real work of mixing dough, maintaining sourdough cultures, shaping loaves, managing fermentation and putting bread into the hands of actual customers.

Today, our focus has grown to supplying our artisan bread to local food establishments throughout the Similkameen and Okanagan Valleys.

And while the bakery continues to bake for our local communities, we wanted to share a piece of that journey with home bakers everywhere.

At the Heart of Our Micro Bakery Is Samantha

She's our baker extraordinaire — the person behind the bread, the sourdough, the experiments, the early mornings and all the little details that make a loaf of bread something worth sharing.

She's also the best mom in the world, an all-around awesome human being, and someone with a heart of gold.

Sourdough isn't just something we write about. It's something Samantha has spent years actually doing.

There is a big difference between reading about sourdough and living it every day. Samantha has learned through real baking — through successful loaves, failed loaves, changing weather, stubborn dough, hungry customers and countless batches of bread.

That hands-on experience is at the heart of Squirrelly Girl. It's why we're passionate about giving home bakers more than just a starter. We want to share the knowledge, lessons and practical experience that come from actually working with sourdough.

Real Bread. Real Experience.

We Don't Just Talk About Sourdough. We Bake It.

Since 2018, our sourdough journey has been built around actually baking bread.

From our early days of home-delivering artisan loaves to supplying local food establishments throughout the Similkameen and Okanagan Valleys, we've continued to work with sourdough in the real world.

That experience is the foundation behind everything we share through Squirrelly Girl — from our starter and activation instructions to our recipes, baking guides and troubleshooting advice.

When we tell you what a healthy starter should look like, what fermentation can do, why a loaf turns out gummy, or how to recognize when your dough is ready, we're drawing from years of actually working with sourdough.

So, What Exactly Is Squirrelly Girl?

Squirrelly Girl is the next chapter in our sourdough journey.

We took the knowledge and experience developed through our real-world baking journey and created a way for home bakers to bring that sourdough culture into their own kitchens.

Our dehydrated sourdough starter can be reactivated into a living, active sourdough culture, giving home bakers a way to begin baking with a starter that comes from a real baking tradition.

But Squirrelly Girl is about more than selling starter.

We're building a place where home bakers can learn how sourdough actually works — how to activate a starter, how to feed it, how to recognize when it's ready, how to troubleshoot problems and, most importantly, how to become confident baking with it.

From Our Bakery to Bakers Everywhere

Our goal is simple: take what we've learned through years of real sourdough baking and make it easier for you to bake great bread at home.

Whether you're activating your first starter or you've been baking sourdough for years, we're here to help you understand the dough, trust the process and enjoy the bread.

Real bakery experience. Real sourdough. Real help for real home bakers.

We're Still Just Bakers

At the end of the day, we're not trying to make sourdough complicated.

We believe bread should be something you can understand, enjoy and share.

Squirrelly Girl gives us a way to share what we've learned from our bakery with people far beyond our own community — while continuing to do what started this whole journey in the first place:

Bake good bread. Share it. Keep learning.

Ready to Start Your Own Sourdough Journey?

Bring a little piece of our bakery into your kitchen with Squirrelly Girl Sourdough Starter.

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