Coaching

Sourdough Coaching

Personalised guidance, simple steps, and real-time support to help your loaves rise every single time.

A rustic tabletop at Pakenham Mill featuring a long oval sourdough batard with bold, dramatic scoring that resembles a windmill pattern, sitting on a slate serving board. Behind it, slightly out of focus, an antique grain millstone and a small hessian sack of flour spill a little onto the wood, hinting at heritage grains. Soft golden-hour light slants in from the right, grazing the textured crust and stone, creating warm highlights and elongated shadows. Photographic realism, shot from a low, close perspective with shallow depth of field, gives the loaf a heroic, centerpiece feel while the background subtly celebrates the local mill context and community connection.

Pricing

Choose the sourdough support that fits your schedule, from quick confidence boosts to ongoing coaching for every bake.

Starter Session

£65 — 90‑minute 1:1 sourdough coaching session tailored to your starter, schedule, and oven, including follow‑up notes and a personalised bake plan.

✓ Basics

✓ Starter

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Home Baker

£120 — Three 60‑minute 1:1 sessions over four weeks to build confidence from starter care through to shaping, scoring, and troubleshooting your loaves.

✓ Video

✓ Recipes

✓ Feedback

✓ Schedule

✓ WhatsApp support

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Community Club

£35 per person — 2‑hour small‑group sourdough workshop, ideal for beginners who want hands‑on guidance, shared tips, and a fun community bake.

✓ Deep-dive

✓ Bake-along

✓ Notes

✓ Resource-bank

✓ Sourdough hotline

✓ Starter-kit

✓ Priority

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Enquire

Tell Lorna about your sourdough goals, experience, and timing so we can recommend the right coaching path.

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A crusty golden sourdough boule with a deeply blistered surface and intricate leaf scoring, resting on a well-worn wooden board dusted with flour. Open crumb slices lean casually against the loaf, showing glossy, irregular holes and a tender interior. In the softly blurred background, ceramic mixing bowls, a cloth-covered banneton, and a jar of bubbly starter sit on a natural linen cloth. Warm late-morning window light streams in from the left, creating gentle highlights on the crust and soft shadows across the board. Photographic realism, shot at eye level with a shallow depth of field, conveys a cozy, inviting, playful atmosphere perfect for beginner home bakers discovering sourdough.

Meet Lorna

Aarav Sharma

A cozy virtual-workshop scene framed around a laptop on a wooden kitchen table, its screen displaying a clear, close-up image of sourdough dough being stretched and folded (no visible hands). Surrounding the laptop are tactile props: a covered proofing basket, a thermometer, a printed “Group Sourdough Session” card, and a perfectly baked small loaf cooling on a wire rack. Soft, diffused morning light from a nearby window highlights gentle steam rising from the loaf. Photographic realism from a slightly elevated angle with a comfortable amount of background blur, conveying a warm, playful, supportive atmosphere that emphasizes remote coaching, simplicity, and connection for busy home bakers.

Mateo García

A whimsical flat-lay of sourdough essentials arranged on a pale wood table: a round banneton lined with a lightly floured linen, a clay baker with its lid tilted, a jar of frothy starter labeled “Lorna’s,” and a timer set beside a folded schedule card titled “1:1 Coaching Session.” Small, perfectly sliced pieces of sourdough with visible open crumb form a loose spiral around the tools, dusted with scattered flour and a few wheat stalks. Overcast window light from above creates gentle, even illumination with soft shadows. Photographic realism with sharp focus across the frame, creating a bright, playful, organized atmosphere that suggests guided learning and simple routines.

Zuri Ndlovu

A friendly kitchen counter scene featuring a plump sourdough loaf mid-slice, a digital kitchen scale, and a spiral-bound notepad open to a handwritten recipe titled “Sourdough Somethin’ Somethin’.” A flour-smudged dough scraper and measuring spoons rest nearby, with a glass jar of active starter prominently placed in the foreground, bubbles catching the light. Natural afternoon light falls through an unseen window, casting playful shadows and highlighting textures in the wood grain and flour. Photographic realism, composed from a slightly elevated angle using the rule of thirds, with a softly blurred background of tiled backsplash and simple shelves, creates an approachable, practical mood that speaks to beginners and busy home bakers.