Released – The Tuscan Summer Retreat

The Sourdough School Annual Tuscan Retreat is Available to Book.

I love this course. But is where bread is lived. I love it because bread stops being fragmented. It is not baking over here, nutrition over there, genetics somewhere else, and life squeezed in between. In Tuscany, bread returns to its rightful place as a daily, embodied act — made with hands, eaten slowly, shared

There is no rush, no pressure, no compressing decades of work into soundbites. We talk, bake, walk, eat, and think in the same rhythm. Students meet me as I actually work — quietly rigorous, deeply human — and that is rare. and I catch the last of the summer sun. Heat, time, stone, grain, fermentation, rest. These are not concepts there; they just are. I love this because it reminds me of why I began. The love of bread and all it can be.

YOU ARE INVITED TO JOIN BAKING AS A WAY OF LIFE
So this is not your “normal bread course”. It is a week you step into. Mornings begin with hands in dough, afternoons soften into amazing conversations, walking, rest, and shared tables. Bread moves out of the theoretical and back into daily life — where it belongs. I think that people leave feeling changed, not because they learned more, but because they lived it.

JOIN A RARE INTELLECTUAL AND HUMAN COMMUNITY
The people who come are thoughtful, curious, and quietly serious about health, craft, and care. Bakers sit alongside clinicians, artists alongside scientists. Conversations unfold slowly and honestly. Many students describe this week as the moment they finally felt at home in their thinking — bread, health, and meaning belong together.

A 3000 YEAR OLD CASTLE IS THE PLACE THAT HOLDS YOU WHILE YOU LEARN
Castello di Potentino is not a venue. It is a living landscape — stone, heat, vines, olives, grain, time. Learning happens because the environment allows it. You slow down. You notice. You remember why bread has always mattered. This is the kind of learning that shapes future practice, future teaching, and future students.

See you there.

Click here to enrol.

Vanessa

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