Baking delicious sourdough bread at home has never been easier with Symbiota’s Ancient Organic Sourdough Starter. This super active, live starter is mature, robust, and full of flavour, making it the perfect choice for home bakers who want artisan-quality bread without the guesswork and gaurenteed results. 

What is a Sourdough Starter?

A sourdough starter is a starter culture of wild yeast and probiotic bacteria created from flour and water. Unlike commercial yeast, it leavens bread naturally while adding depth of flavour, texture, and aroma.

With Symbiota’s starter, you can make a wide range of sourdough breads using:

• Bread flour, rye flour, spelt flour, or whole wheat flour
• Organic stone-ground and white spelt flours
• Custom flour blends of your choice

Simply feed your starter daily, to keep it resilient and bubbly. To make sourdough bread you mix part of your starter with flour, water, and salt, and enjoy freshly baked sourdough bread. Once baked, your starter can be stored in the fridge to reduce feeding times.

All Symbiota starters come with feeding instructions and a recipe to get you started. 

Why Choose Symbiota’s Sourdough Starter?

• Ancient & Mature: More diverse probiotic bacteria and richer flavour than newly created starters. Our starters are extremely resilents and therefore perfect for beginners. See our amazing reviews! 
• Organic dried sourdough starter:  Available for gifting or backups as they are shelf stable for up to 6 months. 
• Super Active & Ready to Bake: Symbiota live starters only take 1–3 days to reach baking readiness after arrival
• Versatile: Works with a wide variety of flours for your favourite sourdough recipes
• Hassle-Free: No need to cultivate a starter from scratch – just feed and bake.
• Organic: All Symbiota sourdough starters are fed frequently with only certified organic flours.

What You Receive

• 4–6 heaped tablespoons of live sourdough starter (or equivalent in dried starter)

• Step-by-step Sourdough Starter Recipe & Instructions

• Aftersales Support for all your baking questions

Other useful sourdough utensils and ingredients:

Consider our Starter Sourdough Kit for everything you need to begin baking immediately – perfect as a gift for home bakers!

Level up your sourdough baking with our sourdough proofing basket, scraper and lame.

Don't go without our stoneground organic flours for the best results! 

Important Information

• Live starters are couriered on Mondays & Tuesdays – please use an urban delivery address when possible. Some may courier on Wed/Thurs to urban addresses depending on how couriers are running. 

• Contains wheat & gluten.

Benefits of Baking with Symbiota Sourdough Starter

• Naturally leavened bread with artisan flavour and texture
• Boosts digestive health through metabolites from probiotic cultures despite being baked. 
• Saves time and effort compared to starting a culture from scratch
• More people tollerate sourdough bread than normal bread
• Supports creative baking – ideal for classic loaves, rye breads, spelt breads, and more

Start baking exceptional sourdough bread today with Symbiota’s Ancient Organic Sourdough Starter – your shortcut to artisan quality loaves at home. Try our beginners sourdough recipe to get started!