Sourdough Bread Baking Workshop

$149.00
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We will be working on an online version of this workshop. So stay tuned for that.

Learn how to make artisan sourdough bread successfully at home.
Please note that this workshop uses our rye sourdough starter and wheat, spelt and rye flours in the finished products.

For our gluten-free sourdough workshop please go here.

Date to be confirmed. 

Time: 10am - 3pm

Lunch and some afternoon tea is included!

We started our sourdough bread baking journey 15 years ago and now bake a large variety of breads and sweet treats for our family and friends.

You will walk away with a recipe booklet and a free rye sourdough starter (valued at $19.90).

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It took us at least a couple of years to master the art of sourdough bread baking and we would have loved a workshop like this to make things easier. The internet is filled with helpful and not so helpful and confusing recommendations making it hard to get your head around it.

We have 16 years of experience with sourdough. We are here to help you and answer all your questions in regard to sourdough bread. Please read the review of workshop participants, many of them creating stunning loaves at home.

For lunch we will enjoy some sourdough bread, focaccia and a hearty soup. Do let us know if you have any allergies.

Image below: Yummy sourdough focaccia with yellow tomatoes and red onions.



In this workshop you will learn:

- how to manage, maintain and care for your sourdough starter

- debunking common misconceptions about sourdough starters

- how to make a beautiful focaccia to impress your friends and family at pot-luck dinners

- how to make seedy sourdough discard crackers, which are a must on every cheese board

- how to build a dough, do stretch & folds, signs of fermentation, resting times, rise and shaping a dough

- how to make a basic sourdough bread with wheat, spelt and rye flour

- how to make a sweet buns with your rye sourdough starter


All of the flours used in this workshop are certified organic.

This workshop uses ancient grains like spelt and also wheat and rye flour. Even though the flour does get fermented it is not recommended if you are highly gluten intolerant or celiac. Please see our gluten-free sourdough workshop instead.


Tutor: Cornelia Holten
MEd (Integrative Learning), Certificate in Organic Horticulture, training in Holistic Management and with the Dr Elaine Ingham's Soil Food Web School and Herbal Medicine

Cornelia is a soil health educator and herbalist with a passion for soil health, growing nutritious food, DIY, herbs, and self-sufficiency.

A certificate in Organic Horticulture, intensive training with Dr. Elaine Ingham's Soil Food Web School, an Apprenticeship in Herbal Medicine at Valmai Becker's Phytofarm, training in Allan Savoury's Holistic Management, Permaculture Design with Geoff Lawton and living on a farm in Pigeon Bay equip her with a lot of knowledge and hands-on experience about soil health, holistic food systems, growing nutritious food and living a healthy life. A Masters Degree in Integrative Learning at Endicott College enables her to weave her vast knowledge together to run easy to understand and fun workshops.

Together with her husband Kai, she is teaching workshops on soil health, whole foods, fermentation, cheese and bread making and regenerative gardening.

A thirst for knowledge and a passion for new scientific studies keep her well informed on those topics.

Customer Reviews

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Kevin on  Apr 22, 2026

De-mystifying bread making

Thank you for de-mystifying making bread with a sourdough starter this weekend.<br /> <br /> Have a book I read several months ago on the topic, I'm so glad I had not attempted to make any prior to attending your fabulous workshop.<br /> <br /> You have given us a great understanding of hydration, percentages, flours, caring for a starter and the thing we as a group seemed most obsessed with, timing!<br /> <br /> Dipped into the book again and found all the above references had context and made sense, thanks to you. Feel much more confident about tackling the first loaf from your recipe.<br /> <br /> We enjoyed very much your beautiful location, delicious food and the opportunity to spend time with you, your children and the group.<br />

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Catherine on  Dec 1, 2025

Learning at your Piece of Paradise

Can't thank you enough for a lovely day. It was such a delight to step into your wonderful piece of paradise hidden away on the Peninsula. Such a charming location with stunning views. I learnt heaps and can't wait to start putting some of your knowledge into practice. Huge thank you!

Kim Vanessa Read on  Nov 30, 2025

Sourdough Bread workshop 29 th Nov

Excellent and learnt lots of tips and ideas for my baking of sourdough bread. Also an amazing location.

Gael on  Apr 13, 2025

I learned a lot

This workshop was great and I learnt a lot e.g. Hydration levels and diastatic malt and final shaping hands on practice. Beautiful rural surrounds and Scenic drive to get there. Your direction instructions were very clear. Looking forward to using new starter and will add orange zest and spices to bun recipe for Easter Buns

Aluminé Andrew on  Apr 15, 2024

All you'll ever need to know

Amazing setting, wonderful tutors, gorgeous bread! And focaccia, sweet buns, crackers...learn to make them all and have all your questions answered. Fab day out.

Sandra White on  Apr 14, 2024

Sourdough Bread Making Workshop

Comprehensive day with so much information, along with practical demonstrations and group participation. Many thanks for all the tips, for the thorough Workshop Notes/ Recipes and for a delicious lunch and afternoon tea. It has been a very rewarding day.

Susan and Brian Hart on  Nov 19, 2023

Fabulous Workshop

Thank you for your fabulous workshop, we have learnt so much and are looking forward to putting it in to practice.

Heather M on  Nov 6, 2023

Fantastic day

Really enjoyed my day at KoruKai Farm (well worth the drive!) and found the course incredibly helpful in my desire to make edible sourdough bread! Cornelia and Kai were fantastic hosts and had obviously gone to great lengths to prepare for the course and enable us to experience each stage of the process in making various products. In addition, lunch was delicious, the view spectacular and the company great - would highly recommend this course!

Martine on  Nov 5, 2023

A great day of absorbing knowledge

I had a great day of absorbing knowledge and I am soooo eager to try out the recipes I have received. My friend was very happy that I took her to your sourdough bread making workshop. She really loved it. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and recipes.<br /> I am soo grateful for you giving me the opportunity to gain this knowledge.<br /> <br /> Till next workshop,

Miranda C on  Jul 25, 2022

Delicious day

Another great workshop by the Korukai family. I'm ready to put my breadmaker 'on ice' and get my hands floured up for a more involved breadmaking experience. Cornelia and Kai are such genuine and passionate hosts and tutors, and I always enjoy the opportunity to meet like-minded people attending their workshops. I highly recommend Korukai Farm courses.

Chris McGill on  Aug 10, 2021

Thank you

Thank you for the sour dough workshop, it has allowed me to be far less messy and more confident on how to be apart of this ancient technology.

Carol on  Aug 3, 2021

A Fantastic Day

Thank you Cornelia and Kai for a very well run workshop which exceeded my expectations. Such wonderful planning and timing! A lovely group to work with, beautiful salads to share for lunch with the yummy bread. Your children are so well behaved.<br /> Thanks to all of you for inviting us into your home.

Gill on  Aug 2, 2021

I learnt soooo much

Thank you Cornelia and Kai,<br /> A fantastic day and I learnt soooo much.<br /> I continue to admire you for what you are doing.<br /> <br /> Thank you for your generosity in sharing your knowledge and home with us all, plus the time your whole family gave up to facilitate the sharing of new skills.

Louise S on  Aug 2, 2021

Sourdough and so much more

I went on this brilliant experience on the 1st August 2021, in the home of the host Cornelia Holten. The whole family shared their time and knowledge, as well as their home and well equipped kitchen, with plenty of seating and work tops for all attending. Cornelia had prepared in advance, sourdough starters, dough, bulk fermentation etc etc, so that one could witness and take part in the various stages, of what is normally a prolonged process. Very friendly group, no pressure to perform, and brilliant salads provided by all to share. Very good days course, that can only be of benefit to anyone taking part. Thank you.

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