Looking for Sourdough Starter for Sale?

You've found it.

Squirrelly Girl Sourdough Starter is an established sourdough culture from a real working micro bakery, carefully dehydrated so it can travel from our bakery to your kitchen.

Once it arrives, you'll reactivate the culture with flour and water, feed it until it becomes bubbly and active, and then maintain it as your own sourdough starter.

No mysterious jar from the back of someone's refrigerator. No spending weeks wondering whether the flour and water you mixed together is actually becoming a starter.

Just a real established culture and clear instructions to help you get it active.

Dehydrated Sourdough Starter for Sale Online

Sourdough starter is a living culture containing wild yeast and bacteria. When maintained with flour and water, those microorganisms ferment the mixture and eventually help naturally leaven sourdough bread.

The challenge with shipping a regularly maintained starter is that an active culture continues fermenting and requires feeding.

Dehydration gives us a much more practical option.

The established culture is dried so it can remain dormant during storage and shipping. Once it reaches your kitchen, flour and water are gradually introduced to wake the culture back up.

How Does Dried Sourdough Starter Work?

Is This a Real Sourdough Starter?

You're not buying commercial yeast disguised as sourdough starter.

Once activated and regularly fed with flour and water, you maintain the culture just like other sourdough starters.

Is Dried or Fresh Sourdough Starter Better?

Both can become active sourdough cultures in your kitchen. The biggest difference is what condition the starter is in when you receive it.

Fresh starter is already hydrated and fermenting, which means it requires ongoing care.

Dried starter is dormant and needs to be reactivated before baking, but its dormant state makes it particularly convenient for storage and shipping.

Once a dried starter has been successfully activated and is being regularly maintained, it becomes your living sourdough culture.

Sourdough Starter for Beginners

Buying the starter is the easy part.

Then comes the moment every new sourdough baker eventually experiences:

Standing in the kitchen staring at a jar and wondering, “Is that enough bubbles?”

That's why Squirrelly Girl isn't only about selling sourdough starter.

We've built educational resources to help you understand activation, feeding ratios, temperature, rising, peak activity, troubleshooting and eventually baking with your starter.

What Can You Make With Sourdough Starter?

Once your starter is active and established in your kitchen, one little culture opens the door to an enormous range of sourdough baking.

• Traditional sourdough bread
• Sourdough sandwich bread
• Focaccia
• Pizza crust
• English muffins
• Pancakes
• Muffins
• Cookies
• Cakes
• Crackers and discard recipes

Take care of your starter and it can keep providing culture for future bakes again and again.

Can You Buy Sourdough Starter Instead of Making It?

Making a starter from scratch can be a rewarding project, but there's no rule saying every sourdough baker has to begin that way.

Some people grow their starter from scratch. Some get starter from a friend. Some get it from a bakery. And some order an established dehydrated culture.

The bread doesn't care.

What Happens If My Starter Doesn't Activate?

We don't want you buying a starter and then being left alone with a jar of flour and existential questions.

Follow our activation instructions and give your starter the proper flour, water, temperature and feeding conditions.

If your Squirrelly Girl Starter fails to activate after you've followed the instructions, our 100% Activation Guarantee has you covered.

We'll either replace it or refund your purchase according to the terms of our guarantee.

Ready to Order Your Sourdough Starter?

If you came here searching for sourdough starter for sale, you don't have to keep looking.

Start with an established bakery-raised culture, activate it in your own kitchen and make it yours.