Sourdough Bakery & Pantry Services

My name is Marianne and I am wildcrafter. And a baker. And a chef. A natural born foodie with a lifelong love of from-scratch cooking and over 15 years of professional cooking experience that (when combined with my love of the outdoors) evolved into real dedication to local farm raised and wildcrafted foods. I've been cooking and re-creating recipes since I was young, but when I moved to the mountains of Idaho from the beaches of California, all natural took on whole new meaning and I fell madly in love with the harvest. All of it! I made friends with high-mountain farmers and gardeners, wild food and medicine foragers, and I wandered the woods with them in search of morel mushrooms and fresh nettles and wild huckleberries. I went to their homes and witnessed their pharmacopias of natural medicine and I tasted of the annual bounties they were reaping and over some years, I began learning about how and why they plant what they plant, the best times to forage for medicinal plants, and how important the health of this planet is. Best of all, I was invited to share and enjoy and cook with the best ingredients I've ever known! I was delighfully and permenently spoiled by all the wild harvested and fresh from the garden veggies I tasted. No more Crisco in my pie crusts, no more produce shopping at chain supermarkets. I stocked my freezers with sweet wild berries, my pantry with dried mushrooms and canned peaches, and my medicine cabinet with elderberry juice and dried hawthorne berries. I adopted my first sourdough starter and filled my bakery with whole food ingredients, my fridge with garden grown vegetables, loaded up on orchard fruits and started selling my pies at local farmers markets. This was IT! The ultimate experience for me as a nature loving, garden worshipping, trying to be healthy as possible cook! Out into the mountains to harvest whatever was in season, then back to the kitchen for drying and canning and seal-a-mealing. I put in my first garden, raised my first chickens for eggs, got turned on to wild game and hand raised meats and suddenly understood the truest meaning of eating well.

After experiencing what the physical effects of eating this kind of food actually felt like, the real meaning of "health food" also became crystal clear to me. And when it was time to bake for my first farmers market, the satisfaction I felt was complete. I knew this was best there ever was to cook with, the truest flavor and highest nutritional value, and I experienced the pride and integrity that comes with growing, harvesting and cooking real, and really good food. There was just no going back for me after that, and here I still am today - delighted by what nature provides and humbled by what the garden gives, inspired to create the very best food for my table, every season and every year.

Look for me wildcrafting seasonally all throughout west, picking in the fruit orchards for pies and jams, harvesting wild morel mushrooms and nettles for drying, selling at local farmers markets and working as a home pantry chef for hire, Working side-by-side with organic farmers to help maximize their harvests and all that hard work, while providing the very best of the healthiest food growing to all of our customers.

"Keep it local, keep it natural, keep it wild, and keep it well!"

Western Wildcrafting Company ~ Since the Summer of 2011

I proudly source, produce and offer top quality, shelf stable, gourmet and staple canned goods for your pantry, as a service. A lovely and seasonal variety of jams, jellies, pickled veggies, canned fruits, chutneys, syrups and sauces. Wildly delicious edible mushrooms and sweet wild berries that are all carefully harvested during the peak seasons, then dried or processed and packaged for safe, long term storage. Small farm and garden grown produce is the absolute BEST for flavor and I make sure to properly pressure cook and preserve every jar for you to put up and enjoy, until long after the growing season ends. All your pantry needs met! Family style dinners and lunches available by special order with personalized, seasonal menus. All prepared in your home by a professional baker and chef, complimented by delicious baked pies, sweet breads, a few gluten-free specialties and a nice variety of crusty-good sourdough breads to compliment every meal. And of course, the smell of fresh baked goods filling your home with goodness!

I use only non-gmo flours, whole dairy, organic fruits, sugars, and spices in all my baking and the best local produce I can find for all of my cooking.