How It Started
It Started With a Sourdough Starter
In 2010, Nina Kowalski inherited two things from her grandmother: a 40-year-old sourdough starter and a handwritten recipe book held together with a rubber band. She'd been baking since she could reach the counter, but it was the starter — alive, temperamental, demanding — that turned a hobby into an obsession.
What started as loaves for friends and neighbors became a farmers market stand, then a tiny storefront, and eventually the bakery you see today. Nina still feeds the starter every morning. Some things you don't mess with.